{"id":18578,"date":"2022-11-02T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/portfolio\/anglo-indians-and-minority-politics-in-south-asia-race-boundary-making-and-communal-nationalism-copy-copy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:48:53","slug":"anglo-indians-and-minority-politics-in-south-asia-race-boundary-making-and-communal-nationalism-copy-copy","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/portfolio\/anglo-indians-and-minority-politics-in-south-asia-race-boundary-making-and-communal-nationalism-copy-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Fran\u00e7ois Tainturier<\/strong><br \/>\nNUS, 2021<\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 9789814722773<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Drawing on original Burmese texts and illustrations, recent scholarship, and mapping,\u00a0\u00a0<i>Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma<\/i>\u00a0argues that the founding of Mandalay shifted critically in emphasis and scale during its planning from a protocol that established the royal city as a \u201ccosmic city\u201d to one that viewed the royal capital as a sanctuary. 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Tainturier provides further insight into how rulers articulated their lineage, power, and the promotion of Buddhism by creating potent landscapes.\u00a0<i>Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma<\/i>\u00a0renews scholarly discussion on Southeast Asian urban traditions and offers a critical investigation into the \u201ccosmic\u201d dimensions of one of the region\u2019s centers of power.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fran\u00e7ois Tainturier<\/b> is the executive director of the Inya Institute, a Yangon-based higher learning institute dedicated to advancing the social sciences and the humanities as they relate to Myanmar.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Fran\u00e7ois Tainturier NUS, 2021 ISBN: 9789814722773 Drawing on original Burmese texts and illustrations, recent scholarship, and mapping,\u00a0\u00a0Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma\u00a0argues that the founding of Mandalay shifted critically in emphasis and scale during its planning from a protocol that established the royal city as a \u201ccosmic city\u201d to one that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6845,"featured_media":18580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[1485],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18578","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-books"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/18578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18578"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/18578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24248,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/18578\/revisions\/24248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=18578"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tag?post=18578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}