- 📘 Ideologies of the Raj (1997) by Thomas Metcalf
- An excellent introduction to the institutional Ideologies of the British Raj. Metcalf often uses architecture to make his arguments.
- 📘 Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power, and Environment (1976) by Anthony D. King
- The classic text on colonial urban development in India. King lays the theoretical foundations of the field, even if his focus is predominantly on Delhi.
- 📘 Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (2016) edited by G.A. Bremner
- The first and most recent survey of the vast realm of British Imperial architecture in the Dominions, India, and other colonies.
- 📘 Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi (1981) by Robert Grant Irving
- Despite the great number of publications on the history of New Delhi, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative. However, it pays little attention to indigenous agents.
