Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-Century Calcutta

ISBN-13: 9781009100113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay

Opis

Studies Calcutta's 20th century features through the dialectic of motion and obstruction, analysing how space and polity shaped each other.

Spis treści

List of Maps, Tables, Appendices, Images; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Making of the Modern Street: Engineers, Commoners, Agitators; Chapter 2. The Regime of the Streets: Renewal and Riots, 1910-1926; Chapter 3. City as Territory: Institutionalizing Majoritarianism; Chapter 4. Frontier Urbanization; Chapter 5. Durable Obstructions, Spatializing Motion: The History of Footpath-hawking; Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography.