Oxford Anthology of the Modern India city : the city in its Plenitude (Record no. 69885)
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| fixed length control field | 03304 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780198091806 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 307.760954 |
| Item number | LAL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lal, Vinay Ed |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Oxford Anthology of the Modern India city : the city in its Plenitude |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Oxford University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xlvi,382p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>Preface and Acknowledgements ix<br/>Introduction: Modern India and the Claims of the City xiii<br/>VINAY LAL<br/>Mosaic of the City<br/>MARK TWAIN<br/>Following the Equator 1<br/>SIR EDWIN ARNOLD<br/>A Handsome City Seated on Two Bays 30<br/>NISSIM EZEKIEL<br/>Irani Restaurant Instructions 32<br/>A Morning Walk 33<br/>GIEVE PATEL <br/>City Landscape 34<br/>DILIP CHITRE<br/>My Father Travels 35<br/>GIEVE PATEL<br/>From Bombay Central 36<br/>ASHOK BANKER<br/>Vertigo 38<br/>SALEEM PEERADINA<br/>A Voyeur is Born 41<br/>Death of a Well 43<br/>RABINDRANATH TAGORE<br/>Song of the City (Nagar-sangit) 45<br/>BUDDHADEV BOSE<br/>Calcutta 48<br/>PRITISH NANDY<br/>calcutta if you must exile me 51<br/>NIRENDRANATH CHAKRA VARTY<br/>Calcutta's Jesus 52<br/>SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY<br/>City of Memories 53<br/>LINA FRUZZETTI<br/>In Conversation with MJ Akbar,<br/>Satindranath Chakrabarty, and Sunil Ganguly<br/>Calcutta Conversations 62<br/>KEDARNATH SINGH<br/>Banaras 75<br/>RAVI DAYAL<br/>A Kayastha's View 77<br/>GHULAM M. SHEIKH<br/>Delhi 83<br/>SARNATH BANERJEE<br/>Corridor: A Graphic Novel 84<br/>KULWINDER KAUR<br/>Daily Hurts 90<br/>RANJIT LAL<br/>Wild City: Nature Wonders Next Door 97<br/>KUNWAR NARAIN<br/>Lucknow 102<br/>K.S. NARASIMHA SWAMY<br/>From House to House 104<br/>DHOOMIL<br/>The City, Evening, and an Old Man: Me 107<br/>NIRUPAMA DUTT<br/>Cityscape 109<br/>Imagination of the City, the City of Imagination<br/>FOLKTALE FROM WEST BENGAL<br/>Oh! Calcutta 111<br/>RABINDRANATH TAGORE<br/>City and Village 112<br/>MAJROOH SULTANPURI<br/>This is Bombay, My Love! 126<br/>SALMAN RUSHDIE<br/>Bombay was Central 127<br/>AMITABHA BHATTACHARYA<br/>Satyajit Ray's Calcutta: Friend or Adversary? 129<br/>DIANA L. ECK<br/>Banaras: City of Death 139<br/>AMITAVA KUMAR<br/>In the Light if Small Towns 143<br/>ADITY A NIGAM<br/>Theatre of the Urban: The Strange Case of the Monkeyman 151 <br/>U.R. ANANTHAMURTHY<br/>Ooru and the World 161<br/>ASHIS NANDY<br/>Time Travel to a Possible Self: Searching for the Alternative<br/>Cosmopolitanism of Cochin 165<br/>The City in Colonial India<br/>KALIPRASANNA SINHA<br/>The Observant Owl: Hootum's Vignettes of<br/>Nineteenth-century Calcutta 199<br/>G.H.<br/>The Opening if the East Indian Railway 211<br/>AMAR FAROOQUI<br/>Opium City: The Making if Early Victorian Bombay 218<br/>NARENDRA LUTHER<br/>A Parade of Diwans 225<br/>SIDNEY LOW<br/>Vision of India 230<br/>NIRAD C. CHAUDHURI<br/>Man and Life in Calcutta 241<br/>KENNETH L. GILLION<br/>Ahmedabad: A Study in Indian Urban History 258<br/>SUDHIR PATWARDHAN<br/>The City Political: A Portfolio<br/>A note on the artist by VINA Y LAL 270<br/>Spaces, Sights, Surroundings: Architecture of the City and Its Streets<br/>HERBERT BAKER<br/>The New Delhi 277<br/>CHARLES CORREA<br/>Space as a Resource 292<br/>ARJUN APPADURAI<br/>Street Culture 297<br/>P. THANKAPPAN NAIR<br/>A History of Calcutta's Streets 306<br/>GAUTAM BHATIA<br/>Baroque Architecture in the City 320<br/>SUKETU MEHTA<br/>A Lover's Embrace 328<br/>VINAY LAL<br/>The Urban Landscape of Deewaar 329<br/>Further Reading: A Select Bibliography 341<br/>VINAY LAL<br/>Notes on Contributors 367<br/>Copyright Statement 379 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | India |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Megastructures |
| -- | cities and towns |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Withdrawn status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last borrowed | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 13/09/2022 | The Word Bookshop | 703.00 | 5 | 2 | 307.760954 LAL | 024032 | 08/02/2024 | 17/01/2024 | 950.00 | 13/09/2022 | Book |