Mustansir Dalvi’s monograph offers a comprehensive biography of Charles Correa, highlighting his creative journey as a celebrated architect and urban planner who shaped modern Indian architecture with a distinctive post-Independence vision.

by MPost I Published on: Oct 27, 2024

In 1948, when Charles Correa left for the US, India, newly independent, was still reeling from the trauma of the Partition and the assassination of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. When he returned to Bombay in 1956, the country had consolidated into a republic with a new constitution, the first General Election had been held in 1951, and the new institutions of an independent state were steadily being established. The image of the nation state was, very substantially, being crafted by Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister. His vision for the modern nation was pitted against the baggage of the past, both colonial and precolonial, and the burdens of tradition, ritual, and belief.

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