The Grand Programme: Gordon Sanderson, New Delhi and the Architecture of India, 1911-1915

The exhibition examines the work of architect Gordon Sanderson, 1887-1915, who served as an officer of the colonial archaeological department from 1911 until his death in 1915. The exhibition highlights, through one, truncated, early twentieth-century life and work, the interconnected nature of biography, archaeology, art, architecture, authority and scholarship in the British Empire

 

The exhibition includes text panels and images drawn from colonial archives, private family records, and the extensive corpus of Sanderson’s architectural drawings composed in Britain, Egypt and India

 

Curator: Dr. Deborah Sutton, Lancaster University, UK

Designer: Siddhartha Chatterjee, seechange

 

Inauguration by Prof. Shahid Amin on Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 18:30