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Calcutta (India) --- Calcutta (Inde) --- Description and travel --- History --- Descriptions et voyages --- Histoire
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Planning from the Bottom up highlights the gap between the official rhetoric and the political reality of democratic decentralisation and bottom-up planning using an in-depth study of the metropolitan planning process in Kolkata, India. The key issue addressed here is how elected officials at different governmental levels, professional planners, and ordinary citizens interact in the process of metropolitan planning, and which players dominate the process. The focus is on the dynamic interactions between planners and the operation of the political process that shapes this reality. This book illustrates that there are differences in the real motives for the state to pursue decentralisation and what it claims to be behind its decentralisation policy and that the planning process is unlikely to be truly bottom-up if power is concentrated within any one political party. It also depicts how external funding, either from international agencies or higher levels of government, has the potential to force change in the local and regional structures of decision-making so that the voices of ordinary people can be included in public decision-making; for the effective implementation of bottom-up approaches to metropolitan planning the planning bureaucracy needs to be independent of the political class and bottom-up planning requires that planning capacity be built from a grassroots level. This requires devolution of both responsibilities and means/resources to carry out those responsibilities to the lowest level of planning.
City planning --- Citizen participation. --- Calcutta (India) --- Social conditions --- Politics and government
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"Indian cricket mobilised a large and diverse popular following in the twentieth century. What was so special about cricket and why was it so important to a large number of people? In this book, the author tells the story of this banal humanity that historians tend to forget. Why do postcolonial Indians identify with the colonial game the way they do? Is the engagement with English culture a mechanism for empowering and modernising themselves? What does cricket tell us about the making of a public culture? Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta uncovers the various modes through which the Indian public have been moulded as followers of cricket and examines the emergence of a postcolonial society through its lens. Through thematic explorations of cricket's significance for the people of Calcutta, the book discusses the making of public culture in a postcolonial city. The six chapters survey long-term social, cultural and political processes through which cricket became an accessory to emerging identities and ideologies. By closely examining these processes the author analyses the discourses of postcolonialism, collective history and space-making in an urban context. The followers and critics of cricket in Calcutta are the protagonists in this book. A study of their entanglement offers two important insights into the making of postcolonial society. First, it enables us to understand how people attach symbolic values to cultural forms to reimagine and reinvent themselves. Second, it enhances the analytical value of cricket as a cultural tool that empowered, modernised and gave new meanings to its community"--
Cricket --- Popular culture --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General --- History --- Social aspects --- Kolkata (India) --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Ball games --- Wicket --- Kalikātā (India) --- 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) --- Calcutta (India)
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Anglo-Indians --- Christians --- Religious adherents --- Eurasians --- Ethnic identity. --- Social conditions. --- Community life --- Education --- Ethnic identity --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- Kolkata (India) --- Ethnic relations --- Religious life and customs --- Ethnic relations. --- Religious life and customs. --- Kalikātā (India) --- 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) --- Calcutta (India) --- Anglo-Indians - India - Kolkata - Ethnic identity --- Anglo-Indians - India - Kolkata - Social conditions --- Anglo-Indians - India - Kolkata - Biography --- Christians - India - Kolkata - Biography --- Community life - India - Kolkata --- Education - Social aspects - India - Kolkata --- Kolkata (India) - Social conditions --- Kolkata (India) - Ethnic relations --- Kolkata (India) - Biography --- Kolkata (India) - Religious life and customs
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Colonising, Decolonising, and Globalising Kolkata' offers an extended analysis of the architecture of Kolkata from the earliest days of colonialism through independence and on into the twenty-first century, all set in the larger context of Indian cities and architecture. What Siddhartha Sen shows is the transformation of a colonial city into a Marxist one-and ongoing attempts to further transform it into a global city. Richly illustrated, the book carefully situates architecture, design, and urban planning within Kolkata's political economy and social milieu.
Urban renewal --- Cities and towns --- Architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Urban policy --- Design and construction --- Kolkata (India) --- Kalikātā (India) --- 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) --- Calcutta (India) --- Civilization. --- History. --- Urban renewal. --- Cities and towns. --- Architecture. --- HISTORY --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- India & South Asia. --- India --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Indii︠a︡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- インド --- هند --- Индия --- Kolkata, urbanism, architecture, urban planning, history. --- Architecture, Primitive
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