Protest, Crime, and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta, C. 1860-1920
Hardback
Publication Date: 21/07/2016
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.
- ISBN:
- 9780199464791
- 9780199464791
- Category:
- Asian history
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 21-07-2016
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press India
- Country of origin:
- India
- Dimensions (mm):
- 224x148x27.8mm
- Weight:
- 0.53kg
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