Possessing the City - Property and Politics in Delhi, 1911-1947

Delhi as an urban space was re-made in the late-colonial period, not purely because of the new architecture, but also because of crucial social transformations. Possessing the City poses the question: who owned property, and what did they do with it, with answers rooted in the South Asian state, housing, finance, and religious conflict.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Background: Property in Delhi, 1857-1911


• 2: A Malleable Cityscape


• 3: Landlords, Tenants, and Real Estate Firms


• 4: Representing Commodified Space: Maps, Auctions, Leases and, 'Narration' of Property


• 5: Intimacy in Four Registers: State, Space, and Capital in Delhi


• 6: Lineages of the Housing Question


• 7: Grave Investments: Abstraction and Sacral Spaces in 20th Century Colonial Delhi


• Conclusion


• Appendix I: The Database of Construction


• Bibliography

About the author

Anish Vanaik teaches history at O. P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, India. As well as urban history, Vanaik's research interests include the history of political cartoons and the history of Marxism in India.

Summary

Delhi as an urban space was re-made in the late-colonial period, not purely because of the new architecture, but also because of crucial social transformations. Possessing the City poses the question: who owned property, and what did they do with it, with answers rooted in the South Asian state, housing, finance, and religious conflict.

Product details

• Authors: Anish Vanaik, Anish (Associate Professor Vanaik
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780198848752
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884875-2
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of Architecture, Asian History