GGR241H1 Lecture Notes - Garden City Movement, Caste System In India, Classical Order
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New delhi: a planned colonial city 28 february 2013. Colonial power when they come to india for instance, allocate controls space. They can maintain their power over a group of people. New symbol of imperial power in india. A new space and landscape that would represent the new imperial vision of the british rule. Building cities as texts: communicative devices that encode and transmit information: e. g. signs, cities use of text to carry out social relationship, new delhi is a concrete manifestation Building: acquiring the land complex agricultural system created over thousands of years and it"s embedded social and economic relations impossible to replicate elsewhere. 1894 land acquisition act for british to conquer their land: imperial dominance was more important in the daily life, they are more important than the individual. 3 different payments to pay for their land: cash payment, tax remission, resettlement cash payments too low, not enough to purchase another land and people often would become homeless.
