{"product_id":"claiming-the-city-protest-crime-and-scandals-in-colonial-calcutta-c-1860-1920-0199464790","title":"Claiming the City: Protest, Crime, and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1860-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0199464790\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ghosh, Anindita\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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 citys 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 problem 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51669429092640,"sku":"NEW0199464790","price":51.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61FyjaKbCWL.jpg?v=1779048802","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/claiming-the-city-protest-crime-and-scandals-in-colonial-calcutta-c-1860-1920-0199464790","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}