The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City
Volume I: The City in its Plenitude
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 31 October 2013
- ISBN 9780198091806
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 221x146x32 mm
- Weight 610 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 black-and-white photographs 0
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Short description:
The first anthology of the city in India since around 1800, with an accent on the twentieth century, this two-volume collection draws on fiction, poetry, essays, travel narratives, and scholarly studies in history, anthropology, and cultural studies. With a mix of readings from the most renowned writers, established scholars and authors, and younger voices, Volume I includes contributions from 54 writers and looks at the mosaic of the city, the city of imagination, the city in colonial India, and the architecture of the city and its streets.
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The city has had a long history in India, from the urban civilization of the Indus Valley in 2500 BCE to the megalopolis found in contemporary India. This is the first anthology of the city in India since around 1800, with an accent on the twentieth century. Drawing on fiction, poetry, essays, travel narratives, and scholarly studies in history, anthropology, and cultural studies, this two-volume anthology presents insights into the city with a mix of readings from the most renowned writers, established scholars and authors, and younger voices.
Including poems, short stories, essays, and social commentaries by 54 writers, this volume, in particular, looks at the mosaic of the city, the city of imagination, the city in colonial India, the architecture of the city and its streets. With contributions from leading writers and scholars including U.R. Ananthamurthy, Diana L. Eck, Arjun Appadurai, Dilip Chitre, Charles Correa, Rabindranath Tagore, Mark Twain, Salman Rushdie, Herbert Baker, A.K. Ramanujan, Lina M. Fruzzetti, and Majrooh Sultanpuri, this volume comes with a comprehensive Introduction by Vinay Lal which sets the context for the writings and a special 'further reading: a select bibliography' for the interested reader.
Table of Contents:
Preface & Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modern India and the Claims of the City
Mosaic of the City: Following the Equator / Mark Twain
A Handsome City Seated on Two Bays / Sir Edwin Arnold
Irani Restaurant Instructions / Nissim Ezekiel
A Morning Walk / Nissim Ezekiel
City Landscape / Gieve Patel
My Father Travels / Dilip Chitre
From Bombay Central / Gieve Patel
Vertigo / Ashok Banker
A Voyeur is Born & Death of a Well / Saleem Peeradina
Nagar-sangit (Song of the City) / Rabindranath Tagore
Calcutta / Buddhadeva Bose
Calcutta if you must exile me / Pritish Nandy
Calcutta's Jesus / Nirendranath Chakravarty
City of Memories / Sunil Gangopadhyay
Calcutta Conversations / Lina Fruzzetti and Akos Ostor
Banaras / Kedarnath Singh
A Kayastha's View of Delhi / Ravi Dayal
Delhi / Ghulam M. Sheikh
Corridor: A Graphic Novel / Sarnath Banerjee
Daily hurts / Kulwinder Kaur
City Simians & The Ridge / Ranjit Lal
Lucknow / Kunwar Narain
From House to House / K.S. Narasimhaswamy
The City, Evening, and an Old Man: Me / Dhoomil
Cityscape / Nirupama Dutt
Imagination of the City, the City of Imagination: Oh! Calcutta (folktale) / A.K. Ramanujan
City and Village / Rabindranath Tagore
Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan / Majrooh Sultanpuri
The Moor's Last Sigh / Salman Rushdie
Satyajit Ray's Calcutta: Friend or Adversary? / Amitabha Bhattacharya
Banaras: City of Death / Diana L. Eck
Laloo's Patna, and Mine / Amitava Kumar
The Strange Case of the Monkeyman / Aditya Nigam
Ooru and the World / U.R. Ananthamurthy
The Alternative Cosmopolitanism of Cochin / Ashis Nandy
The City in Colonial India: The Observant Owl / Kaliprasanna Sinha
The Opening of the East Indian Railways / G.H.
Opium City: Early Victorian Bombay / Amar Farooqui
Hyderabad / Narendra Luther
A Vision of India / Sidney Low
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian / Nirad Chaudhuri
Ahmedabad: A Study in Urban Indian History / Kenneth L. Gillion
The City Political: A Portfolio / Sudhir Patwardhan; Note on the Artist: Vinay Lal
Spaces, Sights, Surroundings: Architecture of the City and its Streets: The New Delhi / Herbert Baker
Space as a Resource: The New Landscape / Charles Correa
Street Culture / Arjun Appadurai
A History of Calcutta's Streets / P. Thankappan Nair
Punjabi Baroque / Gautam Bhatia
Mumbai / Suketu Mehta
The Urban Landscape of Deewaar / Vinay Lal
Further Reading: A Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Copyright Acknowledgments
