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Architectural studies of the buildings of the British Empire remain rare. But even as a book that leans more towards architectural than imperial history, Shorto has added much to our previously limited knowledge of colonial architecture in India in the first half of the nineteenth century with this detailed study of five Britons and the houses in which they lived. In Shorto's view, Ochterlony was "a man who effortlessly ... straddled British and Indian culture" (p. 25). [Extracted from the article]