Adaptation and Attainment of Colonial Character: The Transformation of Lahore

Along with the English language, colonial, legal and administrative institutions, the buildings of the British are arguably amongst the most tangible and enduring legacies of the European colonisation. These provide an insight into the British understanding of the city and this determined and shaped the relation between the coloniser and the colonised. The present study seeks to encapsulate the historical phase in which gradual transition took place in the imperial character of the city of Lahore as a consequence of the establishment of colonial rule.