The Everyday Legacy of Indian Modernism: Building for the Post-Independence Middle Class

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Indian modernism is often narrated through a narrow lens: a handful of iconic institutions, master architects, and formally radical experiments that came to symbolize the nation's post-Independence aspirations. Yet this version of history overlooks the far larger body of modernist architecture that quietly shaped everyday life across the country. Beyond celebrated campuses and canonical buildings exists a vast, dispersed landscape of housing blocks, offices, hostels, hospitals, markets, and townships — structures that were designed to function and endure.

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Cite: Ananya Nayak. "The Everyday Legacy of Indian Modernism: Building for the Post-Independence Middle Class" 09 Jan 2026. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1037432/the-everyday-legacy-of-indian-modernism-building-for-the-post-independence-middle-class> ISSN 0719-8884

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