Hygienic City-Nation - Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta

This book offers an on-the-ground view of colonial Calcutta's neighbourhoods, where kinship-like ties shaped urban space and resisted city-making efforts of the state.

List of contents

List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Black Town, Spaces of Pathology, and a Hindu Discourse of Citizenship; 2. The Calcutta Improvement Trust: Racialized Hygiene, Expropriation, and Resistance by Religion; 3. A City-Nation: Paras, Hygiene, and Swaraj; 4. A New Black Town: Recolonizing Calcutta's Bustees; Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Nabaparna Ghosh is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at Babson College, USA. Her research focuses on the urban history of South Asia. She was awarded her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University.

Summary

This book offers the first comprehensive history of everyday urban spaces – that is, spaces planned by the people, and not the state – in a colonial South Asian city. It will interest students, researchers, and faculty of history, South Asian studies, empire and colonialism, nationalism, comparative cities, architecture, and city-planning.

Product details

• Authors: Nabaparna Ghosh, GHOSH NABAPARNA, Ghosh Nabaparna Ghosh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108489898
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48989-8
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Social & cultural history, India, Social and cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / South / General