History, Culture and the Indian City

ISBN-13: 9780521768719 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 282 str.

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar

Opis

A substantial collection of unpublished articles, lectures and papers from one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century.

Recenzje

'All the essays in the volume are alive with Chandavarkar's voice; his gentle intellectual power and soft revolutionary influence. They issue a timely challenge to South-Asianists of all stripes as well as a new generation of scholars to think across ossifying disciplinary boundaries and thought-clogging accepted intellectual discourses to reanimate the study of South Asian society.' The Journal of Asian Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Bombay's perennial modernities; 3. Sewers; 4. Peasants and proletarians in Bombay City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; 5. State and society in colonial India; 6. Religion and nationalism in India; 7. From neighbourhood to nation: the rise and fall of the left in Bombay's Girangaon in the twentieth century; 8. Historians and the nation; 9. Urban history and urban anthropology in South Asia; 10. Aspects of the historiography of labour in India; 11. Post-script; 12. Bibliography.