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Claiming the City Protest Crime and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta C 1860 1920 1st Edition by Anindita Ghosh ISBN 0199086931 9780199086931

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Author(s): Anindita Ghosh
ISBN(s): 9780199086931, 0199086931
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 8.13 MB
Year: 2016
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199086931 
ISBN 13: 9780199086931
Author: Anindita Ghosh

As the administrative and commercial capital of British India and as one of the earliest experiments in modern urbanization in the sub-continent, Calcutta proved enormously challenging to both its residents and its architects. In this imaginative study of colonial Calcutta, Anindita Ghosh charts the history of its urbanization from below- in its streets, strikes, and popular urban cultures.

Claiming the City offers a close-up view of the cityâs underbelly by drawing in a range of non-archival sources- from illustrations and amateur photographs to street songs, local histories, and memoirs – which show that Calcutta was not just a âproblemâ to be disciplined and governed, as the colonialists would have us believe. Instead, the city emerges as a lively and crucial site for the shaping of the discourse on claims to urban spaces and resources by various marginal groups. Ghosh uses the everyday as a prism for exposing the wide spectrum of political and social imaginaries that shaped the city and shows how the once proverbial ‘City of Palaces’ slowly turned into a city of endemic unrest and strife.

Claiming the City Protest Crime and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta C 1860 1920 1st Table of contents:

  1. Chapter 1: Urban Space, Technology, and Community

  2. Chapter 2: Songs, the City, and the Everyday

  3. Chapter 3: Sexuality, Scandals, and the Urban Order

  4. Chapter 4: Battle for the Streets: Contesting Municipal Regimes

  5. Chapter 5: Criminality, Class, and Moral Anxieties

  6. Chapter 6: Collective Protest and Riots

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