Ravi Kalia

Ravi Kalia is a professor of history at the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Hindu College, Delhi University, and Ph.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. Kalia is the author of Chandigarh: The Making of an Indian City and Bhubaneswar: From a Temple Town to a Capital City. His extensive publishing career includes articles in such journals as Technology and Science Journal, the Journal of Urban History, and Habitat International. Kalia lives in the Bronx.

Constructing National Identity in Post-Colonial India

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Based on Ravi Kalia’s latest publication, Gandhinagar, this presentation traces India’s efforts to establish its twentieth-century architectural identity. Kalia explains that Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat in western India, became a battleground for the competing ideals that had surfaced during the building of Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar. Exploring the impact of modernist architecture on India as … Read more