"... the keen, cool, yet expressive rationalism of Rahman's modernity was ultimately deployed most conspicuously asa form of 'symbolic' capital. Major interventions in the sylvan reserve of Lutyens's Delhi, such as Rahman's External Affairs Hostels of 1965 and his massive Curzon Road Hostel Complex – built for initial use as the temporary accommodation for international delegates to the UNCTAD conference of 1969 hosted in Delhi – were clearly the outcomes of planning and design in which the political functions of these developments were at least as important as the pragmatic functions they addressed."
Scriver and Srivastava, India, Chapter 3 - "Nation Building", 2016. pp 165.