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5HUM0325 Peace, Power and Prosperity: Lecture 5. Empire. Structure of the lecture. the nature of the British Empire debate on ‘ imperial absentmindedness ’ viewing the empire and its identity through architecture.
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Structure of the lecture • the nature of the British Empire • debate on ‘imperial absentmindedness’ • viewing the empire and its identity through architecture
Sepoy or Indian Rebellion of 1857Felice Beato, ‘Fort Lucknow after the Indian Mutiny’‘Justice,’Punch (12 Sept. 1857)
Great Exhibition, 1851, and the Gwalior Gateway at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, South Kensington, London 1886 Illustrated News, July 1886
Alfred Egmont Hake, ‘The Death of General Gordon at Khartoum’ (1885)
Government House, Calcutta (1798-1803), now Raj Bhavan, Kolkatta
Victoria Terminus, Bombay (1878-87), postcard from 1905 [now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai] http://www.harappa.com/post4/bombay05.html
Victoria Memorial Hall, Madras (1909), now National Art Gallery, Chennai
Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta (1906-21), now art museum, Kolkatta