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SUMMARY:Neighbors Vol. 6: Queer Methodologies and Architectural Histories 
 by Sonal Mithal / TPOD\, THEMA\, HITAM
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Sonal Mithal\, CEPT University \nThe talk offers methods of u
 sing queer strategies to read the colonial archival and write erased\, ove
 rlooked\, and suppressed histories. The talk centers on the book\, A Queer
  Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archives: Lucknow Queers
 capes. Following nawab Asaf-ud-daula and nawab Wajid Ali Shah\, the book p
 rovides a queer architectural history of Lucknow bookending the nawabi pha
 se which lasted a mere eighty years. Asaf and Wajid were both subjected to
  colonial ridicule—one on the pretext of his homosexuality and the other
  on the pretext of being effeminate in mannerisms. To situate this ridicul
 e\, the book brings out words of disdain in the colonial archive that desc
 ribe Lucknow architecture commissioned by the two nawabs. Reclaiming those
  words\, it reveals the capacity of nawabi architecture to contest\, disco
 mfort\, and disadvantage the colonial gaze. Nawabi architecture is present
 ed as a form of drag embodied theatrically in the overlaps of the personal
  and the political ishq. Drawing upon embodied experience of the nawabs\,
  nawabi architecture is redescribed using disorientation\, position\, prox
 imity\, direction\, alignment\, and non-alignment that disoriented the Bri
 tish visitor and recentered the agency and power of the nawabi state throu
 gh its socio-sexual overlaps. 
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