Aditi Chandra, "Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines

how Delhi's Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth

to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were

assimilated and ordered into public consciousness as spaces for tourism,

leisure, and intellectual contemplation during the colonial and early

postcolonial eras (1828-1963). It examines the resistance that

challenges this ordering, rendering monuments unruly and unassimilable

despite state efforts to control their narrative. This exposes the

nation's contradictory claims of inclusivity while marginalizing

subaltern groups. It guides readers through picturesque landscapes,

museums, imperial displays, postcards, travel experiences, Partition

refugee camps, and cinema. Analyzing these forms reveals how the archive