Gandhiji on the Central Vista
A Postcolonial Refiguring
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3636622 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kelly D Alley (0000-0003-4117-7024, Auburn University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 967-994 |
| Publication date | 1997-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00017224 |
| OpenAlex | W1988604474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 17 |
Monuments, memorials and statues, so commonplace in squares and parks of late twentieth-century cities, have interesting histories and convey particular historiographies. In public arenas planned and maintained by state administrations, symbolic representations situated for the purpose of communicating messages to passersby, visitors, and residents often mark the state's attempt to control space, history and popular memory. By extension, changes in statuary or monumental architecture over time may reflect shifts in rulers and their representations of rule. As Hung (1991) demonstrates, the 'war of monuments' in Tiananmen Square reflected struggles for power and demands by those excluded from power for rights and access. The 'statumania' of post-revolutionary France personalized contests for power and representation (Agulhon 1985). On the other hand, monuments that remain fixed on landscapes can be variously interpreted over time, forming, as Young (1989:70) has noted, 'a kind of screen across which the projected shadows of a world's preoccupations continue to flicker and dance
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Toxic Monuments and Mnemonic Regime Change
Uncomfortable heritage in the postcolonial city
At 75, New Aspirations for New Delhi
The design-politics of decolonization
Material forms of memorialisation in pre- and post-independent India
New Delhi’s All-India War Memorial (India Gate)
Acts of Possession and Symbolic Decolonisation in Trinidad and Tobago
City of sand
The Viceroys are Disappearing from the Roundabouts in Delhi
Rites of Power
Colonialism and Culture
Selected Subaltern studies
The Anthropology of Evil
The practice of everyday life
The Biography of a Memorial Icon
Architecture and the Representation of Empire
Tiananmen Square
Orientalist Constructions of India
Some Structural and Sequential Aspects of the British Imperial Assemblages at Delhi
Indian Summer
Indian Summer. Lutyens, Baker and Imperial Delhi
Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World
Symbols of Power
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |