The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City

Making and Unmaking the City: Politics, Culture, and Life Forms
Herausgeber: Lal, Vinay

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Produktbeschreibung

The first anthology of the city in India since around 1800, with an accent on the twentieth century, this two-volume collection draws on fiction, poetry, essays, travel narratives, and scholarly studies in history, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780198091813
• ISBN-10: 0198091818
• Artikelnr.: 37087237

Autorenporträt

Vinay Lal is currently Associate Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); he was Professor of History, Delhi University, 2010-11. He is the author and editor of a number of books with OUP, including The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Delhi: OUP, 2003; new and enlarged edition, 2005); Fingerprinting Popular Culture: The Mythic and the Iconic In Indian Cinema, co-edited with Ashis Nandy (Delhi: OUP, 2006); and Political Hinduism: The Religious Imagination in the Public Sphere (ed.) (Delhi: OUP, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Modern India and the Claims of the City
* Identities, Interests, Institutions: Politics and Violence in the
City: Lucknow (folk song) / P.C. Joshi
* The Tilak Riots / S.M. Edwardes
* The 1984 Carnage and its Aftermath / Manoj Mitta and H.S. Phoolka
* A Split-level War in Jamshedpur / M.J. Akbar
* Land to the Killer / Shiv Visvanathan
* Shiv Sena, the City, and Communal Populism / Thomas Blom Hansen
* The Social Web of Life in the Metropolis: Flute-music / Rabindranath
Tagore
* Urban Frauds / Doosa Rajagopala Bhoopathy
* The Truth about Dhanya / Nissim Ezekiel
* Juthika / Premendra Mitra
* Main Bombai Ka Babu Naam Mera Anjaana / Sahir Ludhianvi
* The Great Big City / Premendra Mitra
* The Days of the Beloved / Harriet Ronken Lynton and Mohini Rajan
* Winter in Calcutta / Amitav Ghosh
* A Street in Srinagar / Chandrakanta
* Thirst / Martha Ann Selby
* Sharavana's Services / Vivek Shanbhag
* Parking / Ruchir Joshi
* A comics workshop with Positive Women Network / World Comics India
* He never came again / Sunita Nishad
* In your name / Neelofar
* Living at the City's Periphery: Dalits, Labourers, Slum-Dwellers, and
Outsiders: Mumbai / Narayan Surve
* The Unintended City / Jai Sen
* 'Son, Eat your Fill' / Daya Pawar
* Under Dadar Bridge / Prakash Jadhav
* Basanti / Bhisham Sahni
* The Poor amid an Urban Catastrophe / James Manor
* Dharavi / Jeremy Seabrook
* Poor Champudi / Varsha Adalja
* The Millworkers of Girangaon, An Oral History / Meena Menon and Neera
Adarkar
* Slums as Self-Confrontation / Ashis Nandy
* A Death in Delhi / Shankar Ramaswami
* Multiple Cities, Many Ethnicities: Claiming and Disowning the City:
Journeying to Calcutta and English Education in the Metropolis / Lal
Behari Day
* Shadows of Night / S.M. Edwardes
* Shree 420 / Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and V.P. Sathe
* The After-Life of the Raj in Indian Academe / Ashis Nandy
* The Good Parsi / Tanya Luhrmann
* Stranger in a Strange Land / Daud Haider
* Pili Aandhi / Prabha Khetan
* The City of the Mind / Ashis Nandy
* Monologue of the City / Mangalesh Dabral
* Lower Chitpur Road, Kolkata / Garga Chatterjee and Priyanka Nandy
* Art, Culture and Conviviality in the City: The Music of Hindostan /
H. Fox Strangways
* Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture / Abdul Halim Sharar
* Laughter as Subversion in Nineteenth Century Calcutta / Sumanta
Banerjee
* Parsi Theatre in 19th-Century Bombay / Kathryn Hansen
* Bahri alang: Benares's ideology of leisure / Arvind Kala
* The Town India Forgot / Amaresh Misra
* The Chennai Music Season / V. Sriram
* New wine in the old bottle / Timeri N. Murari
* Ruins of Cities Past-and Future?: Delhi: The Mutiny and its Aftermath
/ Mirza Ghalib
* The Song of Those Who Tried to Escape Darkness of the City /
Chandrashekhar Kambar
* Bhopal: A Report from the Future / Shiv Visvanathan and Harsh Sethi
* Chandigarh / Ravi Kalia
* Bombing Bombay? / M.V. Ramana
* The Modern Indian City: A Very Short Reader's Guide
* Notes on Contributors