By Charles Robert Anderson; Center of Military History

Presents one in a chain of forty illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns within which U.S. military troops participated in the course of the conflict. every one brochure describes the strategic atmosphere, strains the operations of the significant American devices concerned, and analyzes the impression of the crusade on destiny operations

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At the Taj Mahal the spatial practices of prayer, veneration, and monument pres- Breathing New Life into Old Stones | 39 Fig 3: J. Brown after William Hodges, A View of the Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar at Secundrii, 1786. Engraving © British Museum ervation put in place by Shah Jahan continued. 40 The efficient custodians, working fountains, well-maintained gardens, and the architectural masterpiece of the tomb itself produced a tableau of sublime beauty that resisted Hodges’s symbolic order of Mughal decline and decay more than any other monument he encountered.

Like the Mughal city and its architecture presented in the shahrashob, the shrines of Sufi leaders were also rendered critical spaces whose symbolization helped the Muslim community survive the tumult of the times and reorient itself. Subject and Subjection: Hodges’s Encounter with the Mughal Monument As the eighteenth century wore on, the poets of the shahrashob began to share the spaces of Mughal architecture with British artists. 17 Emerging from the gap between the two points of identity, the monument simultaneously represented the colonial Real—with its terror, unrestrained expansion, and unethical actions —and the colonial imaginary based on the natural progress of civilization, divine providence, and moral duty.

This spatial operation, whereby the multiplicity of Agra is submerged under the sign of ruin, is demonstrated in Hodges’s visit to and subsequent representation of Akbar’s tomb in Sikandra. His visit begins with his entering the garden through the main gateway, a monumental structure decorated with multicolored marble and two stories of arched windows. He descends into the garden and sees Akbar’s tomb through the trees lining the pathway leading to it. ”37 The tomb is then described in great detail, lending credibility to his representation.

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