Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
A note on infrastructure and bureaucracy
PART I: The Banaras technoscape (and its discontents)
	1. A riot in Banaras
	2. Resorting to the language of stereotypes
	3. Filth, disgust, and governance
	4. Illness and hardship
	5. Creating the modern from the traditional
	6. Do you think the river is dirty?
	7. Administrative infrastructures
	8. Taxation and the transactional state
	9. To contemplate what was and what might have been
PART II: The crafting of historical space
	10. Lord Curzon tours Jaunpur, James Fergusson in hand
	11. Ruination and un-ruination
	12. Files and archives
	13. Three mosques and a committee
	14. Not all tombs are created equal
	15. Act VII and the not-seeing of Banaras
	16. A Sharqi mosque in Banaras
	17. A further note on whitewash
	18. The ruins of now
Afterword: Infrastructure and the dismantling of the colonial self
Bibliography
Index