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Negotiated Neighbourhoods: Juxtaposing Nehruvian Modernism with the Lived Community of Post-Partition India

Author(s) Mr. Poorvit - Khera
Country India
Abstract The 1947 Partition of India precipitated not only a humanitarian crisis but an architectural identity crisis. As the newly independent state sought to project a cohesive and modern identity through top-down master planning, millions of displaced refugees across the nation were simultaneously reconstructing their lives from the bottom up. This paper investigates the friction and synthesis between these two forces. Using a comparative methodological framework, the research juxtaposes a secondary case study of the Nehruvian model, epitomized by Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh, against primary qualitative data derived from oral history interviews within the refugee settlements of Alwar, Rajasthan. While the state viewed housing as a standardized unit of "modern living," the displaced communities viewed it as a site of cultural preservation and survival. The study argues that the post-Partition "home" in India was not merely a product of government allocation but a result of "spatial negotiation" where communities actively adapted rigid modernist layouts to fit vernacular social patterns. By analysing these specific oral histories alongside the official national schemes, this research highlights the agency of the user and demonstrates that the true architecture of resettlement was shaped as much by the inhabitants' memories as by the planner’s blueprint.
Keywords Partition, Nehruvian Modernism, Community Resilience, Oral History, Alwar, Lived Architecture, Spatial Agency.
Field Sociology > Archaeology / History
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-05-11
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.77942
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