This article explores the relationship between choreography of India’s monuments and imperial hierarchies of race. It does so by situating one man’s professional biography within the structures of authority and privilege to which he owed his position. Gordon Sanderson was appointed Superintendent of Muhammadan and British Monuments in Northern India in 1910 and was charged with overseeing the exploration and conservation of archaeological monuments in the new imperial city at Delhi. The classification of India’s architectures offers a uniquely revealing insight into imperial ideologies of race and place. During his brief career, Sanderson demonstrated an intense dislike for the principles and practises of imperial architecture . Sanderson believed in a profound connection between landscape and architecture, a theory for which he found an antithesis in the imperial Public Works Department. Ultimately, and paradoxically, his work was deployed by the Government of India as a repudiation of the credibility of Indian design and architecture.

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戈登·桑德森的“大计划”：1910-1915 年新德里建设中的建筑、官僚主义和种族

本文探讨了印度古迹编舞与帝国种族等级制度之间的关系。它通过将一个人的职业传记置于他应有的地位的权威和特权结构中来做到这一点。戈登·桑德森于 1910 年被任命为印度北部穆罕默德和英国纪念碑的负责人，负责监督德里新皇城考古遗址的探索和保护。印度建筑的分类提供了对种族和地方帝国意识形态的独特揭示。在他短暂的职业生涯中，桑德森表现出对帝国建筑的原则和实践的强烈厌恶。桑德森相信景观与建筑之间的深刻联系，他在帝国公共工程部找到了一个对立的理论。最终，矛盾的是，他的作品被印度政府部署为对印度设计和建筑信誉的否定。