Keenan Stadium & Influences on Colonial Modernity

A study of texts dealing with modernity and particularly modernity in architecture acted as a starting point to trace the developments in Jamshedpur. The biography of the Keenan Stadium delves into questions of making and representation, materiality, and skill in the context of mid-twentieth-century India. Further, a curated catalogue chronicling the imperial and extra-imperial networks of skill, information, and knowledge transfer in the context of Jamshedpur’s planning and architecture from its foundation in the first decade of the twentieth century till 1945, employs Aparajith Ramnath’s paper, 'Extra-Imperial Influences in Indian Industrialisation' as the theoretical framework.