TY  - GEN
AU  - Lal, Vinay Ed
TI  - Oxford Anthology of the Modern India city : the city in its Plenitude
SN  - 9780198091806
U1  - 307.760954 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Megastructures
KW  - cities and towns
N1  - Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements  ix
Introduction: Modern India and the Claims of the City  xiii
VINAY LAL
Mosaic of the City
MARK TWAIN
Following the Equator  1
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD
A Handsome City Seated on Two Bays  30
NISSIM EZEKIEL
Irani Restaurant Instructions  32
A Morning Walk  33
GIEVE PATEL 
City Landscape  34
DILIP CHITRE
My Father Travels  35
GIEVE PATEL
From Bombay Central  36
ASHOK BANKER
Vertigo  38
SALEEM PEERADINA
A Voyeur is Born  41
Death of a Well  43
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Song of the City (Nagar-sangit)  45
BUDDHADEV BOSE
Calcutta  48
PRITISH NANDY
calcutta if you must exile me  51
NIRENDRANATH CHAKRA VARTY
Calcutta's Jesus  52
SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY
City of Memories  53
LINA FRUZZETTI
In Conversation with MJ Akbar,
Satindranath Chakrabarty, and Sunil Ganguly
Calcutta Conversations  62
KEDARNATH SINGH
Banaras  75
RAVI DAYAL
A Kayastha's View  77
GHULAM M. SHEIKH
Delhi  83
SARNATH BANERJEE
Corridor: A Graphic Novel  84
KULWINDER KAUR
Daily Hurts  90
RANJIT LAL
Wild City: Nature Wonders Next Door  97
KUNWAR NARAIN
Lucknow  102
K.S. NARASIMHA SWAMY
From House to House  104
DHOOMIL
The City, Evening, and an Old Man: Me  107
NIRUPAMA DUTT
Cityscape  109
Imagination of the City, the City of Imagination
FOLKTALE FROM WEST BENGAL
Oh! Calcutta  111
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
City and Village  112
MAJROOH SULTANPURI
This is Bombay, My Love!  126
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Bombay was Central  127
AMITABHA BHATTACHARYA
Satyajit Ray's Calcutta: Friend or Adversary?  129
DIANA L. ECK
Banaras: City of Death  139
AMITAVA KUMAR
In the Light if Small Towns  143
ADITY A NIGAM
Theatre of the Urban: The Strange Case of the Monkeyman  151 
U.R. ANANTHAMURTHY
Ooru and the World  161
ASHIS NANDY
Time Travel to a Possible Self: Searching for the Alternative
Cosmopolitanism of Cochin  165
The City in Colonial India
KALIPRASANNA SINHA
The Observant Owl: Hootum's Vignettes of
Nineteenth-century Calcutta  199
G.H.
The Opening if the East Indian Railway  211
AMAR FAROOQUI
Opium City: The Making if Early Victorian Bombay  218
NARENDRA LUTHER
A Parade of Diwans  225
SIDNEY LOW
Vision of India  230
NIRAD C. CHAUDHURI
Man and Life in Calcutta  241
KENNETH L. GILLION
Ahmedabad: A Study in Indian Urban History  258
SUDHIR PATWARDHAN
The City Political: A Portfolio
A note on the artist by VINA Y LAL  270
Spaces, Sights, Surroundings: Architecture of the City and Its Streets
HERBERT BAKER
The New Delhi  277
CHARLES CORREA
Space as a Resource  292
ARJUN APPADURAI
Street Culture  297
P. THANKAPPAN NAIR
A History of Calcutta's Streets  306
GAUTAM BHATIA
Baroque Architecture in the City  320
SUKETU MEHTA
A Lover's Embrace  328
VINAY LAL
The Urban Landscape of Deewaar  329
Further Reading: A Select Bibliography  341
VINAY LAL
Notes on Contributors  367
Copyright Statement  379
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