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A Hygienic City-Nation: Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta
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- ISBN
- 9781108489898
- Subject Area
- History
- Publication Name
- Hygienic City-Nation : Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Subject
- Social History, Asia / India & South Asia
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Item Weight
- 15.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 236 Pages
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Calcutta, the centre of British imperial power in India, figures in scholarship as the locus of colonialism and the hotbed of anti-colonial nationalist movements. Yet, historians have largely ignored how the city shaped these movements. A Hygienic City-Nation is the first academic work that examines everyday urban formations in the colonial city that informed the broad global forces of imperialism, nationalism, and urbanism, and were, in turn, shaped by them. Drawing on previously unexplored archives of the Calcutta Improvement Trust and neighbourhood clubs, the author uncovers hidden stories of the city at the everyday level of neighbourhoods or paras, where kinship-like ties, caste, religion, and ethnicity constituted new urban modernity. Ghosh focuses on an emergent discourse on Hindu spatial hygiene that powered nationalist pedagogic efforts to train city dwellers in conduct fit for the city-nation. In such pedagogic efforts, upper-caste Bengalis were pitted against the lower-caste working poor and featured as ideal inhabitants of the city: the citizen.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1108489893
ISBN-13
9781108489898
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24050085082
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Hygienic City-Nation : Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Social History, Asia / India & South Asia
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Number of Pages
236 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2020-013835
Lc Classification Number
Ht147.I5g58 2020
Reviews
'Nabaparna Ghosh's important new work is a critical study of how the Hindu elite in Calcutta responded to and qualified urban regulation by the colonial state, generating an alternative Hindu spatial and hygienic order, politicizing informal spaces like the para (neighbourhood). A fascinating and engaging account, this book extends the frontiers of urban and Calcutta studies in many significant ways.' Partho Datta, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Table of Content
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.
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Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
307.760954147
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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