000			03304 a2200157 4500
020			_a9780198091806
082			_a307.760954 _bLAL
100			_aLal, Vinay Ed _991029
245			_aOxford Anthology of the Modern India city : the city in its Plenitude
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2013
300			_axlvi,382p.
505			_aContents 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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891			_aGeneral
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650			_aMegastructures _acities and towns