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Claiming the City
Anindita Ghosh
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Description for Claiming the City
Hardback. Num Pages: 340 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 528.
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 citys 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 ... Read more
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 citys 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780199464791
SKU
V9780199464791
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99-25
About Anindita Ghosh
Anindita Ghosh is Senior Lecturer in Modern Indian History at the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK. She was ENRECA Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India, and Simon Fellow at the Department of History, University of Manchester, UK.
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