A hygienic city-nation : space, community, and everyday life in colonial Calcutta / Nabaparna Ghosh.
By: Ghosh, Nabaparna.
Material type: Text Language of document:EnglishPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: xvi, 224 p. : ill. (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781108489898.Subject(s): Urbanization -- Social aspects -- India -- Kolkata -- History | Neighborhoods -- India -- Kolkata -- History | Urban sanitation -- India -- Kolkata -- History | Urban health -- India -- Kolkata -- History | Nationalism -- India -- Kolkata -- History | Kolkata (India) -- History -- 19th century | Kolkata (India) -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 307.760954147
Contents:
The Black Town, Spaces of Pathology, and a Hindu Discourse of Citizenship -- The Calcutta Improvement Trust: Racialized Hygiene, Expropriation, and Resistance by Religion -- A City-Nation: Paras, Hygiene, and Swaraj -- A New Black Town: Recolonizing Calcutta's Bustees -- Epilogue.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Reference | P.C. Joshi Archives P.C.Joshi-Archives | 307.760954147 G3463 Hy (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | ACH2326 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Black Town, Spaces of Pathology, and a Hindu Discourse of Citizenship -- The Calcutta Improvement Trust: Racialized Hygiene, Expropriation, and Resistance by Religion -- A City-Nation: Paras, Hygiene, and Swaraj -- A New Black Town: Recolonizing Calcutta's Bustees -- Epilogue.
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