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5HUM0325 Peace, Power and Prosperity: Lecture 5

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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5HUM0325 Peace, Power and Prosperity: Lecture 5

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  1. 5HUM0325 Peace, Power and Prosperity:Lecture 5 Empire

  2. Structure of the lecture • the nature of the British Empire • debate on ‘imperial absentmindedness’ • viewing the empire and its identity through architecture

  3. Sepoy or Indian Rebellion of 1857Felice Beato, ‘Fort Lucknow after the Indian Mutiny’‘Justice,’Punch (12 Sept. 1857)

  4. Queen Victoria as Empress of India, 1877

  5. Great Exhibition, 1851, and the Gwalior Gateway at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, South Kensington, London 1886 Illustrated News, July 1886

  6. ‘Save me from my Friends!’, Punch, 30 Nov. 1878

  7. Alfred Egmont Hake, ‘The Death of General Gordon at Khartoum’ (1885)

  8. Government House, Calcutta (1798-1803), now Raj Bhavan, Kolkatta

  9. Victoria Terminus, Bombay (1878-87), postcard from 1905 [now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai] http://www.harappa.com/post4/bombay05.html

  10. Mayo College, Ajmer (1875)

  11. Victoria Memorial Hall, Madras (1909), now National Art Gallery, Chennai

  12. Gateway of India (1911), Mumbai

  13. Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta (1906-21), now art museum, Kolkatta

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