International experts present an illustrated collection of essays exploring the societal impact of colonial architecture and engineering on the colonized and the colonizers.

Part 1: Frames of Discourse 1. Between Materiality and Representation: Framing an Architectural Critique of Colonial South Asia 2. Stones and Texts: The Architectural Historiography of Colonial India and its Colonial-Modern Contexts 3. The Stone Books of Orientalism Part 2: Institutional Frameworks 4. Empire-Building and Thinking in the Public Works Department of British India 5. 'Strangers within the Gate': Artisanry as Supplement of Labour in the Crafting of Colonial India 6. Between Copying and Creation: The Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details 7. Institutional Audiences and Architectural Style: The Napier Museum Part 3: Domestic Frames of Practice 8. A Tomb of One's Own: The Governor's House, Lahore 9. The Other Face of Primitive Accumulation: The Garden House in British Colonial Bengal 10. The Trouser Under the Cloth: Personal Space in De-Colonization, Ceylon 1815-1948 11. Negotiated Modernities: Symbolic Terrains of Housing in Delhi