Conference Presentations by Ekaterina Aloyants
Utopian Projects in the History of Culture Proceedings of 2nd National Scientific Conference “Utopian Projects in the History of Culture” themed “The City of the Sun”: In Search of Ideal Locus”, 2019
В статье анализируется попытка реализации концепции «идеального города» в Индии на примере новой ... more В статье анализируется попытка реализации концепции «идеального города» в Индии на примере новой столицы Пенджаба как места, свободного как от колониального наследия, так
и от зол традиционной Индии (кастовой сегрегации). Для анализа автор обращается к рассмотрению
теорий градостроительства и истории идеальных городов, ключевых моментов в истории новой столицы и раскрывает роль Джавахарлала Неру в ее создании.
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Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2019
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Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies
The article is devoted to the development of Indology at the University of Hamburg and analyzes t... more The article is devoted to the development of Indology at the University of Hamburg and analyzes the contribution of Hamburg Indologists to the study of ancient and medieval India and the study of modern languages and literature of India in the discipline’s development in the sister city of St. Petersburg. The authors note that the development of Indology has a long history in Germany and the uniqueness of the Hamburg school is observed. Germany had more than forty Indology departments in the 19th century, much more than Great Britain then had. The teaching of Indian languages in Hamburg began in 1914 in the classrooms of the university’s predecessor, the Hamburg Colonial Institute founded in 1908 and dissolved in 1919, soon after World War I. The University of Hamburg started as new and progressive institution of education in Weimar Germany, and continued for the next hundred years, where the teaching of Sanskrit, studying ancient medieval monuments of Indian literature, philosophy,...
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Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, vol. 11, issue 2, 2019
In this article, an attempt is made to sketch the history of Chandigarh as the new ideal city in ... more In this article, an attempt is made to sketch the history of Chandigarh as the new ideal city in India and the capital first of Punjab and later of Punjab and Haryana. The analysis of the personal role of India's Prime-Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the world's leading architect Le Cor-busier in the construction of Chandigarh is made. It is argued by the authors that the role of Jawaharlal Nehru in the planning and construction of Chandigarh was vital for its success. The importance of Chandigarh as the ideal city and the pattern for the construction of new cities in India is investigated. The good sides and the bad sides of Chandigarh are studied. The authors stress the importance of Jawaharlal Nehru's role as the initiator of the construction and the person who chose first Meyer and Nowicky and later Le Corbusier as the main architects of the city. It was Le Corbusier who made Chandigarh famous. The authors argue that it was Chandigarh that helped Le Corbusier With the most ambitious plan of the construction of a new modern city, the ideal city and the city of the future. Political turmoil, however, put the ideal city of Chandigarh into the fire pan of a dispute over it between the new states of Punjab and Haryana. The authors trace the origins and the main stages of the conflict and suggest their own solution to the 'Chandigarh problem'.
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Conference Presentations by Ekaterina Aloyants
и от зол традиционной Индии (кастовой сегрегации). Для анализа автор обращается к рассмотрению
теорий градостроительства и истории идеальных городов, ключевых моментов в истории новой столицы и раскрывает роль Джавахарлала Неру в ее создании.
Papers by Ekaterina Aloyants
и от зол традиционной Индии (кастовой сегрегации). Для анализа автор обращается к рассмотрению
теорий градостроительства и истории идеальных городов, ключевых моментов в истории новой столицы и раскрывает роль Джавахарлала Неру в ее создании.