Community Spaces and Public Buildings
With the arrival of the British (1803) in the capital there is a noticeable change in public buildings. Churches and missionary schools joined mosques and temples of various faiths; the market takes the place of the market-road and the bazar or there is a progressive transition towards buildings of power. After 1947, instead, the most significant aspect is the focus on buildings for the collective. The trend, however, was to add rather than to re-build or demolish, the city absorbed pre-existing buildings, making them become part of the present, shows the inclusive attitude the capital had established with regard to time and cultures. Nonetheless, more than in other urban elements, many buildings, both from the colonial and the post-colonial period, pose the question of how to be ‘Indian’.