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Fifty years after the British annexed the Punjab and made Lahore its provincial capital, the city—once a prosperous Mughal center that had long since fallen i
Making the Modern Slum
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Authors: Sheetal Chhabria
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-06 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these
Making Place
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Pages: 219
Authors: Arijit Sen
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-13 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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An analysis of how city dwellers interact with their social and materials worlds in everyday life and how this affects their bodies. Space and place have become
Colonial Lahore
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Authors: Ian Talbot
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A number of studies of colonial Lahore in recent years have explored such themes as the city’s modernity, its cosmopolitanism and the rise of communalism whic
Representing Calcutta
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Swati Chattopadhyay
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Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and s