Indian postcolonialism and Western populism sometimes converge. The post Lamenting Lutyens appeared first on The American Conservative .
Of all the British imperials to coerce India into modernity, four men—a Welshman, two Englishmen, and a Scot—stand out as the most influential. Contrary to the fantasies of most fevered online onanists, none of them were either military conquerors or plunderers. One was a judge, two were historians, and the last was an architect. Sir William Jones, a Welsh scholar and judge, founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta and modern qualitative and historical research in India. An early historian of Indo-European languages, his efforts led to the foundation of the Journal of the Asiatic Society (his name is still prominently displayed on the cover of the journal ), along with its editor, James Prinsep. Jones and Prinsep were foundational in…Open
VMFA’s finest display on one of the most elite empires. The post Among the Moguls appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Among the Moguls VMFA’s finest display on one of the most elite empires. (Photo by Pallava Bagla/Getty Images) “India’s Great Mughals: Art, Power, and Opulence,” currently showing at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, is a great and rare exhibition that will be hard to replicate in the near future for various sociological reasons. In the greater Anglosphere and America, the decolonial left are a far cry from the empire-builders (and museum curators) of JP Morgan’s days. The know-nothing nativists of the right, on the other hand, do not know or care about anything foreign, much less…Open
Shanghai’s many layers of architecture, culture and politics have made it a difficult fit for the Communist Party’s preferred narrative of Chinese victimhood and Western sins.