Streets in motion : the making of infrastructure, property and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta /
Bandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti
Streets in motion : the making of infrastructure, property and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta / Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay - United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2022 - 305 p.
It develops an approach to urban history by theorizing and historicizing the 'street' as an apparatus of city-making and subject formation. It works at two registers - a local history of Calcutta in colonial and post-colonial periods, and a theorizing of the logistical and political-cultural centrality of the street within this rubric.
9781009109208
2022020714
City planning--India--Kolkata.
Streets--India--Kolkata.
Pedestrian traffic flow--India--Kolkata.
Squatters--India--Kolkata.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
Kolkata (India)--Social conditions--20th century.
HT169.I52
307.121 BAN-R
Streets in motion : the making of infrastructure, property and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta / Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay - United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2022 - 305 p.
It develops an approach to urban history by theorizing and historicizing the 'street' as an apparatus of city-making and subject formation. It works at two registers - a local history of Calcutta in colonial and post-colonial periods, and a theorizing of the logistical and political-cultural centrality of the street within this rubric.
9781009109208
2022020714
City planning--India--Kolkata.
Streets--India--Kolkata.
Pedestrian traffic flow--India--Kolkata.
Squatters--India--Kolkata.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
Kolkata (India)--Social conditions--20th century.
HT169.I52
307.121 BAN-R