The railway colony is the triangular enclave demarcated as ‘European Colony’ (read ‘domiciled’ European) in the upper right quadrant of the map. Neatly self-contained, it lies between the Cartesian space of the cantonment*from which it is physically separated by the railway tracks and an irrigation canal*and the walled ‘city’ on the other side of the railway workshops and station, to the west (Imperial Gazetteer Atlas of India, 1933).
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- "Placing In-between: Thinking through Architecture in the Construction of Colonial-Modern Identities." National Identities 8, no. 3 (2006): 207-223.