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03387aam a2200397 i 4500 001 E4B9D12E370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 160929s2016 ii b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016331490 020 $a 0199464790 020 $a 9780199464791 035 $a (OCoLC)959667529 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d DKAGE $d OCLCF $d VMC $d YDX $d ZYU $d OCL $d CBY $d SILO 042 $a pcc $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 4 $a DS31-35.2 082 04 $a 954.14 $2 23 100 1 $a Ghosh, Anindita, $d 1967- $e author. 245 10 $a Claiming the city : $b protest, crime, and scandals in colonial Calcutta, c. 1860-1920 / $c Anindita Ghosh. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New Delhi, India : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a x, 328 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index. 505 0 $a List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Urban space, technology, and community -- Songs, the city, and the everyday -- Sexuality, scandals, and the urban order -- Battle for the streets: contesting municipal regimes -- Criminality, class, and moral anxieties -- Collective protest and riots -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author. 520 8 $a Departing from approaches that see the city as the unproblematic product of British initiative and disciplining, 'Claiming the city' presents the urban processes shaping Calcutta as contested and partially indigenous. In a crucial intervention the work studies how the colonial urban was not just born out of the ordered institutional spaces inscribed by public parks and squares, sewers and water supplies, roads and tramways, but also the more plebeian imprint of their circumvention by the city's inhabitants - through their use of this civic infrastructure, violence, protest and street demonstrations. In the process the book also traces the ways in which the once proverbial City of Palaces turned by the early twentieth century into a city of endemic unrest and political strife. Ghosh breaks new ground by exploring the history of colonial urbanization from below through a wide range of sources, from street songs and photographs to local histories and memoirs, in addition to the more well-known official archives. In bringing together for the first time both known and unknown histories of the city in imaginative ways, the book weaves a vibrant narrative of everyday life in colonial Calcutta. Scandal, rumour, murder and music help locate energetic lower layers of public sphere in the city that were deeply invested in the urban. By highlighting the tensions of living in a rapidly changing world of technological innovations, social and moral dilemmas, municipal strictures and grinding poverty, the book establishes Calcuttas residents not as passive consumers but rightful claimants to the city. 651 0 $a Kolkata (India) $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Kolkata (India) $x History $y 20th century. 651 7 $a India $z Kolkata. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01892339 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318013824.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180502012220.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E4B9D12E370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search