This book investigates, compares and contrasts the experience of entering into and engaging in modernity and the modern era in many parts of the Asian continent

“Places of risk” and “sites of modernity” refer not merely to physical locations, but also objects and institutions that stand at the center of contempo

Through more than 100 structures, most of which are open to tourism, this volume makes it possible to experience the historical and architectural vestiges of th

In Habitations of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life tha