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This major new postcolonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perceptions of Calcutta. This book explores the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city as its residents negotiated the idea of being 'modern'. Its dynamic range encompasses Asian Studies and History, Architecture and Urbanism The text responds to two inter-related concerns about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as the worst-case scenario of a Third World city -- the proverbial "city of dreadful nights. Second is the changing nature of the city's public spaces - the demise of certain forms of urban sociality that have been mourned in recent literature as the passing of Bengali modernity. Drawing on its postcolonial and spatial theory, it examines the city under British colonial rule as well as its later incarnations and explores issues such as gender, identity and nationalism. We begin with an analysis of the British attitudes that produced a dominant image of a problem-ridden city in the nineteenth century, and then proceed to explore other ways of envisioning it, emphasizing various modes of Bengali spatial imagination and practice. The crafting of a nationalist identity was central to modern Bengali spatial imagination and was animated by the conflicting responses of Bengali residents to city life as they attempted to work out the ethics of their public and private selves in literature, art, residential design, and in the creation of new urban spaces. This new text problematizes the idea of representing the city - both colonialist and nationalist. It argues for models of urbanism, nationalism, and modernity that cannot be fathomed by neat renderings into black/white, spiritual/material, but must be understood in terms of strategic "translations" between cultural and political domains. An essential and challenging new work from this leading author.
City planning --- Geografie --- History --- Sociale geografie --- Bewoning en leefgemeenschap. --- Calcutta (India) --- Calcutta (India) --- History. --- Social conditions.
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Fort William College was an academy established in Calcutta in 1800 by the British colonial administrator Richard Wellesley (1760-1842). Its purpose was to train British officials in numerous oriental languages, which resulted in the publication of several pioneering reference works and thousands of translated texts. First published in 1819, this book was compiled by Thomas Roebuck (1781-1819), assistant secretary to the college's council, as a tribute to Lord Wellesley's work. It contains records of all the memorable events that had taken place at the college since its establishment; Roebuck believed this would help new students in learning the principles on which the college was founded, and how former students had benefited accordingly. Drawing on official documents and containing writings by Wellesley himself, the work offers historians and linguists a valuable insight into a highly influential institution in British India.
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Until the Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded in 1783, the vast landscape of early Indian history, literature, philosophy, and culture remained lost to the western world. This book traces the history of the Society as an institution and describes the motivations and work of various scholars.
Indologists --- Indologists. --- History. --- Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) --- History.
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Calcutta (India) --- Calcutta (Inde) --- Description and travel --- History --- Descriptions et voyages --- Histoire
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Calcutta Mosiac explores the history of the diverse immigrant communities of this great city.
Minorities --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Calcutta (India) --- Calcutta Corporation (India) --- Calcutta Municipal Corporation (India) --- Corporation of Calcutta (India) --- Kalikātā (India) --- Kalkatʻay (India) --- Kalkatʻa (India) --- Kalakattā (India) --- Kalkatah (India) --- Kalakātā Purasabhā (India) --- Municipal Corporation of Calcutta (India) --- Kolkata (India) --- Population. --- Popular culture --- India --- History --- Social life and customs. --- Minorities. --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Sealdah (India) --- Kalkutta (India) --- Caligardamana (India) --- Calcuta (India) --- Kalkuta (India) --- Kälkätä (India) --- Горад Калькута (India) --- Horad Kalʹkuta (India) --- Калькута (India) --- Колката (India) --- Καλκούτα (India) --- Kalkouta (India) --- Kolkato (India) --- 콜카타 (India) --- Калькуттæ (India) --- Kalʹkuttæ (India) --- קולקטה (India) --- Ḳolḳaṭah (India) --- Калькутта (India) --- コルカタ (India) --- Korukata (India) --- Колкате (India) --- Kolkate (India) --- Kolkat (India) --- קאלקאטא (India) --- 加尔各答 (India) --- Jia'ergeda (India)
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The West has become obsessed with Muslims, constantly classifying them as either 'moderate' or 'extreme'. Reacting against this dehumanising tendency, Jeremy Seabrook and Imran Ahmed Siddiqui show us the daily life of poor Muslims in India and sheds light on what lies behind India's 'economic miracle'. The authors examine life in Muslim communities in Kolkata, home to some of the most disadvantaged people in India, giving a voice to their views, values and feelings. We see that Muslims are no different from those of other faiths - work, family and survival are the overwhelming preoccupations of the vast majority. Although most are observant in their religion, there is no trace of the malevolence or poverty-fuelled extremism attributed to them. This enlightening and elegantly written book will be of great interest to students and practitioners of development and anyone who wants a more realistic picture of Muslim life and modern India.
Muslims --- Poor --- Poverty --- Inner cities --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- South Asia --- Central cities --- Ghettos, Inner city --- Inner city ghettos --- Inner city problems --- Zones of transitions --- Cities and towns --- Urban cores --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Islam --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Urban poor --- Calcutta (India) --- Ghetto. --- Muslim. --- Religiöse Minderheit. --- Indien. --- Social life and customs.
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