Claiming the city [electronic resource] : protest, crime, and scandals in colonial Calcutta c. 1860-1920 / Anindita Ghosh.

Claiming the city [electronic resource] : protest, crime, and scandals in colonial Calcutta c. 1860-1920 / Anindita Ghosh.

First edition.

9780199086931 (electronic book)

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199464791 doi

DS486.C2

954.147035

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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