Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay

Streets in Motion (eBook, PDF)

The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta

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Produktbeschreibung

Studies Calcutta''s 20th century features through the dialectic of motion and obstruction, analysing how space and polity shaped each other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009276740
• Artikelnr.: 70909941

Autorenporträt

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay teaches History and Political Economy at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. He is also a permanent module fellow of the M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies 'Metamorphoses of the Political'. Currently, he is a guest professor at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Universität Göttingen.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps, Tables, Appendices, Images
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Making of the Modern Street: Engineers, Commoners, Agitators
Chapter 2. The Regime of the Streets: Renewal and Riots, 1910-1926
Chapter 3. City as Territory: Institutionalizing Majoritarianism
Chapter 4. Frontier Urbanization
Chapter 5. Durable Obstructions, Spatializing Motion: The History of Footpath-hawking
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography.