Modernity and Post-Colonial India Analytical Essay by Top Papers

In this article, the writer looks at modernity and at how architectural modernism captures the economic, cultural and political phenomena re-making India in the twenty-first century. Of especial importance, the writer focuses a great deal of attention upon the work of Joseph Allen Stein, for his work encapsulates the new virility and promise of post-colonial India as it unshackled itself from generations of British rule after the end of World War II. In the final analysis, the writer shows that the secret to peering into the soul of the new India involves looking carefully at the monuments it builds to itself.