Cities in South Asia

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: the city in South Asia
Part I Ideologies of city making: the formation of the Indian city
	2 Cities in India: an archaeological perspective
	3 Who built ‘the city of victory’? Representation of a ‘Hindu’ capital in an ‘Islamicate’ world
Part II Politics of town planning: colonial and postcolonial
	4 Patrick Geddes and the metropolis
	5 Islam and development in urban space: planning ‘official’ Karachi in the 1950s
	6 Slums and the global city: housing plans in Dharavi, Mumbai
	7 Cities within and beyond the plan
Part III The city as an arena for struggles among multiple identities
	8 The city as nation: Delhi as the Indian nation in Bengali bhadralok travelogues 1866–1910
	9 The multilingual city of Bombay and the formation of linguistic states, 1947–60
	10 Durga Puja and neighbourhood in a displaced persons’ colony in New Delhi
	11 Urban thresholds: crevices, crossroads and magic remainders
Part IV Lived cities: views of cities from the ground
	12 ‘Fight the Filth’: civic sense and middle- class activism in Mumbai
	13 Community of retrospect: spirit cults and locality in an old city of Rajasthan
	14 Solving family problems: the role of religious practices for the Indian middle class
Part V Subaltern practices and discourses in urban situations
	15 News, gossip and humour: street perspectives from colonial Calcutta
	16 The postcolonial street: patterns, modes and forms
	17 Life stories of the urban poor in Chittagong, Bangladesh
Part VI Consumer culture in contemporary South Asian cities
	18 Tourism, consumption and the transformation of Thamel, Kathmandu
	19 ‘Time gentlemen’: Bangalore and its drinking cultures
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