(Ebook) Claiming the City Protest Crime and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta 1860 1920 1st Edition by Anindita Ghosh ISBN 0199464790 9780199464791

(Ebook) Claiming the City Protest Crime and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta 1860 1920 1st Edition by Anindita Ghosh ISBN 0199464790 9780199464791

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ISBN 10: 0199464790 
ISBN 13: 9780199464791
Author: Anindita Ghosh

As the administrative and commercial capital of British India and as one of the earliest experiments in modern urbanization in the sub-continent, Calcutta proved enormously challenging to both its residents and its architects. In this imaginative study of colonial Calcutta, Anindita Ghosh charts the history of its urbanization from below- in its streets, strikes, and popular urban cultures.

Claiming the City offers a close-up view of the cityâs underbelly by drawing in a range of non-archival sources- from illustrations and amateur photographs to street songs, local histories, and memoirs - which show that Calcutta was not just a âproblemâ to be disciplined and governed, as the colonialists would have us believe. Instead, the city emerges as a lively and crucial site for the shaping of the discourse on claims to urban spaces and resources by various marginal groups. Ghosh uses the everyday as a prism for exposing the wide spectrum of political and social imaginaries that shaped the city and shows how the once proverbial 'City of Palaces' slowly turned into a city of endemic unrest and strife.

(Ebook) Claiming the City Protest Crime and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta 1860 1920 1st Table of contents:

• 1. The Crowd in Protest

  • A City of Fairs, Festivals, and Processions

  • The Crowd and its Forms of Action

  • The 'Rioting' Crowd and the 'Law and Order' Question

  • Conclusion

• 2. The Space of Protest: Public Gatherings and Political Consciousness

  • Parks and Public Spaces: The Spaces of Political Publics

  • The Swadeshi Movement and its Politics of Public Meeting

  • The Crowd, Surveillance, and the Press

  • Conclusion

• 3. Crime and Punishment

  • Calcutta and the Problem of Crime

  • The Policing of the City

  • Urban Proletariat and Everyday Crime

  • The Politics of Control and Governance

  • Conclusion

• 4. Scrutiny and Surveillance: The Politics of Sexuality

  • The City of Prostitutes and the Policing of Sexuality

  • The Politics of Venereal Disease

  • The Politics of Sex and the Press

  • Conclusion

• 5. Colonial 'Scandals' and the Question of Governance

  • The Opium Scandal: State, Morality, and Public Opinion

  • The 'White' Slave Trade and the Problem of Public Morality

  • Conclusion

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