Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930

ISBN-13: 9780367818906 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 236 str.

Michael S. Dodson

Opis

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century.

Spis treści

Part I: The Banaras technoscape (and its discontents)  1. A riot in Banaras  2. Resorting to the language of stereotypes  3. Filth, disgust, and governance  4. Illness and hardship  5. Creating the modern from the traditional  6. Do you think the river is dirty?  7. Administrative infrastructures  8. Taxation and the transactional state  9. To contemplate what was and what might have been  Part II: The crafting of historical space  10. Lord Curzon tours Jaunpur, James Fergusson in hand  11. Ruination and un-ruination  12. Files and archives  13. Three mosques and a committee  14. Not all tombs are created equal  15. Act VII and the not-seeing of Banaras  16. A Sharqi mosque in Banaras  17. A further note on whitewash  18. The ruins of now

O autorze

Michael S. Dodson is Associate Professor of South Asian History at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. His previous books include Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture: India, 1770-1880 (2007), Banaras: Urban Forms and Cultural Histories (Routledge, 2011) and Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia (Routledge, 2012).