Nabaparna Ghosh

A Hygienic City-Nation

Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an on-the-ground view of colonial Calcutta's neighbourhoods, where kinship-like ties shaped urban space and resisted city-making efforts of the state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwich Medical Media
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781108489898
• ISBN-10: 1108489893
• Artikelnr.: 59982089

Autorenporträt

Nabaparna Ghosh is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at Babson College, USA. Her research focuses on the urban history of South Asia. She was awarded her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Black Town, Spaces of Pathology, and a Hindu Discourse of Citizenship
2. The Calcutta Improvement Trust: Racialized Hygiene, Expropriation, and Resistance by Religion
3. A City-Nation: Paras, Hygiene, and Swaraj
4. A New Black Town: Recolonizing Calcutta's Bustees
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.