Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastava, India

India, Modern Architectures in History by Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastava is a deceptively small publication, but its petite frame belies the range and depth of coverage. The task of writing a history for such a vast geographical territory multiplied across a 150-year time frame represents a huge undertaking, one that the authors have spent over three decades bringing to fruition. I was concerned that this kind of book would be fraught with the temptation to glibly leap from epoch to epoch,..