For decades, South Asian architecture was impelled by the promise of a new society after empire. Now, such buildings are being demolished.
Chris Moffat
Chris Moffat is a senior lecturer in South Asian history at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and is writing a new book on architecture and politics in Pakistan. 
Fill the Halls: Space and Possibility in Lahore, Pakistan
Lahore today can feel like a city of security checks and gated passages, tall walls and ...