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Of Greater Dignity than Riches makes a much-needed contribution to the all-important--and still ongoing--discussion of the 'minimum house' in South Asia. Farhan Karim's work complements a growing general body of interest in colonial and postcolonial architecture of the Indian subcontinent. His deft analysis of modernisms of architecture engaged by the Nehruvian state, beyond those in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad, is badly needed. --Vikramaditya Prakash, University of Washington This book brilliantly shows the explanatory power of austerity and scarcity in the emergence of postcolonial modernism in India, without disregarding how the state and global institutions manipulated these values as a means to keep the poor docile and content with minimal needs. Thinking about a modernism of austerity helps us confront two of the worlds' most pressing problems: Anthropocene and global economic injustice. --Esra Akcan, Cornell University

This book brilliantly shows the explanatory power of austerity and scarcity in the emergence of postcolonial modernism in India, without disregarding how the state and global institutions manipulated these values as a means to keep the poor docile and content with minimal needs. Thinking about a modernism of austerity helps us confront two of the worlds' most pressing problems: Anthropocene and global economic injustice. --Esra Akcan, Cornell University Of Greater Dignity than Riches makes a much-needed contribution to the all-important--and still ongoing--discussion of the 'minimum house' in South Asia. Farhan Karim's work complements a growing general body of interest in colonial and postcolonial architecture of the Indian subcontinent. His deft analysis of modernisms of architecture engaged by the Nehruvian state, beyond those in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad, is badly needed. --Vikramaditya Prakash, University of Washington

Such is the triumph of this fine book: it offers at once a global history of India's architectural past and a set of timely lessons for this interconnected architectural present.-- ""Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"" This book brilliantly shows the explanatory power of austerity and scarcity in the emergence of postcolonial modernism in India, without disregarding how the state and global institutions manipulated these values as a means to keep the poor docile and content with minimal needs. Thinking about a modernism of austerity helps us confront two of the worlds' most pressing problems: Anthropocene and global economic injustice.--Esra Akcan, Cornell University Of Greater Dignity than Riches makes a much-needed contribution to the all-important--and still ongoing--discussion of the 'minimum house' in South Asia. Farhan Karim's work complements a growing general body of interest in colonial and postcolonial architecture of the Indian subcontinent. His deft analysis of modernisms of architecture engaged by the Nehruvian state, beyond those in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad, is badly needed.--Vikramāditya Prakāsh, University of Washington

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Farhan Karim is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Kansas. He has worked as an architect, interior designer, and furniture designer in Bangladesh and Australia.

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