Rajnayaran Chandavarkar

History, Culture and the Indian City

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A substantial collection of unpublished articles, lectures and papers from one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781107492103
• ISBN-10: 1107492106
• Artikelnr.: 42791454

Autorenporträt

Raj Chandavarkar was one of the finest and most imaginative Indian historians of the twentieth century.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Bombay's perennial modernities
3. Sewers
4. Peasants and proletarians in Bombay City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
5. State and society in colonial India
6. Religion and nationalism in India
7. From neighbourhood to nation: the rise and fall of the left in Bombay's Girangaon in the twentieth century
8. Historians and the nation
9. Urban history and urban anthropology in South Asia
10. Aspects of the historiography of labour in India
11. Post-script
12. Bibliography.