Cities in South Asia

Abstract

1. Introduction: Cities in South Asia - interdisciplinary perspectives Crispin Bates Part 1: Ideologies of City Making: the formation of the Indian city 2. Cities in India: an archaeological perspective Junichi Fukao 3. Who Built 'the City of Victory'? Representation of a 'Hindu' capital in an 'Islamicate' world Nobuhiro Ota Part 2: Politics of Town Planning: colonial and post-colonial 4. Patrick Geddes and the Metropolis Partha Datta 5. Islam and Development in Urban Space: planning 'official' Karachi in the 1950s Markus Daechsel 6. Slums and the Global City: housing plans in Dharavi, Mumbai Roma Chatterji 7. Cities within and beyond the Plan Solomon Benjamin Part 3: The City as an Arena for Struggles among Multiple Identities 8. The City as Nation: Delhi as the Indian nation in Bengali bhadralok travelogues 1866-1910 Subho Basu & Sandeep Banerjee 9. The Multilingual City of Bombay and the Formation of Linguistic States, 1947-1960 Riho Isaka 10. Neighbourhood and Urbanisation in Delhi: Durga puja in a Bengali Displaced Persons Colony Tetsuya Nakatani 11. Urban Thresholds: Crevices, Crossroads, and Magic Remainders Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi Part 4: Lived Cities: Views of Cities from the Ground 12. 'Fight the Filth': civic sense and middle-class activism in Mumbai Yoko Taguchi 13. Community of Retrospect: spirit cults in an old city of Rajasthan and reconstruction of locality Minoru Mio 14. Solving Family Problems: the role of religious practices for the Indian middle class Mizuho Matsuo Part 5: Subaltern Practices and Discourses in Urban Situations 15. News, Gossip and Humour: street perspectives from colonial Calcutta Anindita Ghosh 16. The Postcolonial Street: Patterns, Modes and Forms Ajay Gandhi 17. City and Life: from life stories told by people of the lower strata in Chittagong, Bangladesh Mineo Takada Part 6: Consumer Culture in Contemporary South Asian Cities 18. Transformation of a Tourism Space in a City of Consumption: the case of Thamel, Kathmandu Izumi Morimoto 19. 'Time Gentlemen': Bangalore and its drinking cultures Aya Ikegame & Crispin Bates