Urbanisation in Bengal (eBook, PDF)

Ideas, Institutions and Policies
Redaktion: Chakravarty, Pallavi

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urbanization of Bengal from ancient to postcolonial times. It analyses the notion of urban space, examines the institutions which constitute the 'urban', and explores the crises brought about by the Partition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040085790
• Artikelnr.: 72272346

Autorenporträt

Pallavi Chakravarty is Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi, New Delhi, India. She is the author of Boundaries and Belonging: Rehabilitation of Refugees in India, 1947-71 (2022). She was also Junior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (now Pradhan Mantri Museum and Library, New Delhi). Her primary areas of research are partition studies, women and migration, oral histories. She has authored research papers which have been published in peer reviewed journals and edited volumes of national and international repute.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Early Historic Urbanization in Bengal: Bangarh, a Case Study 2. Cities
of the Mind: Representing the Urban in Colonial Bengal Section II:
Institutions of the Urban: Print, Education, Health, Census 3. Popular
Print Culture in the late 19th and early 20th century Calcutta 4. Breaking
Barriers: Women's Movement and Writings from Late Colonial Bengal 5.
Struggle for space: Bengali Women and Urbanization of Colonial Calcutta 6.
The Politics Of Census: Bengal And The 1941 Population Enumeration Section
III: A Struggle for the Urban: Partition and Related Crises 7. From
Refugees To Citizens Popular Protests In West Bengal 1947-6o 8. Carrying on
the 'Rural Home' in the midst of the 'Urban Jungle': Refugee Colonies in
the Post-Partitioned Calcutta 9. 'Refugee-woman' in post-Partition Bengal:
A Critical Re-assessment of their Roles and Image Section IV: The Urban in
the Present: Possibilities and Challenges 10. Industrialization, Migration
and (Un)making of a City: Durgapur Experience