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Claiming the City: Protest, Crime, and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta, C. 1860-1920

Name: Claiming the City: Protest, Crime, and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta, C. 1860-1920
ISBN: 9780199086931

Anindita Ghosh

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This study on colonial Calcutta charts the history of its urbanization from below in its streets, strikes and popular urban cultures. It offers a close up view of the city's underbelly by drawing on a range of non-archival sources, from illustrations and amateur photographs to street songs, local histories and memoirs which show how Calcutta was not just a problem to be disciplined and governed as the colonialists would have us believe. Instead, it emerges as a remarkably lively and crucial site for the shaping of a discourse of rights and claims to the city by various marginal urban groups.

Year:

2016

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Publisher:

Oxford University Press

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english

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0199086931

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9780199086931

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