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HS3697: Cities and the Making of Modern View Online South Asia, c. 1750-1950
197 items
General Background Reading on South Asia (6 items)
A concise history of modern India - Barbara Daly Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf, 2006 Book | Background
Modern India 1885-1947 - Sumit Sarkar, 1983 Book | Background
Modern India: the origins of an Asian democracy - Judith M. Brown, 1994 Book | Background
A history of India - Peter Robb, 2002 Book | Background
Modern South Asia: history, culture, political economy - Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal, 2004 Book | Background
India and the British Empire - Douglas M. Peers, Nandini Gooptu, 2012 Book | Background
Introduction (11 items) Readings for the introductory class
The city in South Asia - James Heitzman, 2008 Book | Background | This is a useful overview of urbanization in South Asia from the ancient to the contemporary period.
The City in South Asia: pre-modern and modern - Kenneth Ballhatchet, John Harrison, 1980 Book | Background | A good background text on urbanization in South Asia in the pre-colonial and colonial periods.
Colonial Cities - Thomas Metcalf Chapter | Essential
The Oxford anthology of the modern Indian city: Volume 1: The city in its plenitude - 2013 Book | Background | Read Introduction by Vinay Lal.
The Oxford anthology of the modern Indian city: Volume 2: Making and unmaking the city-politics, culture, and life forms - 2013 Book | Background | Read Introduction by Vinay Lal
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Urbanism, colonialism and the world-economy: cultural and spatial foundations of the world urban system - Anthony D King, 1990 Book | Background
The City in Indian history: urban demography, society, and politics - Indu Banga, Urban History Association of India, 1991 Book | Essential
Ports and their hinterlands in India, 1700-1950 - Indu Banga, Urban History Association of India, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1992 Book | Background
The rise and growth of the colonial port cities in Asia - Dilip K. Basu, 1985 Book
Urban form and meaning in South Asia: the shaping of cities from prehistoric to precolonial times - Howard Spodek, Doris Srinivasan, American Institute of Indian Studies, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington), National Gallery of Art (United States), 1993 Book | Background
Twelve years on: urban history in India - Narayani Gupta, 1981-5 Article | Essential
Cities in the Mughal Twilight (41 items)
Background reading on the eighteenth century in India (8 items)
The mid-eighteenth-century background - Tapan Raychaudhuri Chapter | Essential
India in the eighteenth century: the formation of states and social groups - C. A. Bayly Chapter | Essential
The eighteenth century in India - Seema Alavi, 2002 Book | Background
The eighteenth century in Indian history: evolution or revolution? - P. J. Marshall, 2003 Book | Background
The Eighteenth Century in Indian History: A Review Essay - Robert Travers, 2007 Article
Hindus, Muslims, and the Other in Eighteenth-Century India - Stewart Gordon, 1999 Article
Commercialisation, Tribute, and the Transition from fate Mughal to Early Colonial in India 1 - R. Datta, 2003-04-01 Article
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South Asia: From Political Economy to Intellectual and Cultural Life - PRASANNAN PARTHASARATHI, 2011-12 Article
The Mughal City (5 items)
Mughal India - Gavin R. G. Hambly Chapter | Essential
The city in South Asia - James Heitzman, 2008 Book | Essential | Read Chapter 2
Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India 1639-1739 - Stephen P. Blake, 2011 Book | Essential
The Delhi omnibus - Thomas George Percival Spear, Thomas George Percival Spear, Narayani Gupta, R. E. Frykenberg, 2002 Book | Essential | Read the two books in this collection by Percival Spear - 'Delhi: A Historical Sketch' and Twilight of the Mughals; and read selectively from the volume edited by Robert Frykenberg. The Narayani Gupta book in this collection is also available separately and is more useful with regard to the seminar on colonial governace.
The Urban Economy in Premodern Muslim India: Shahjahanabad, 1639-1739 - Stephen P. Blake, 1987 Article | Essential
Regional cities (28 items)
Rulers, townsmen and bazaars: North Indian society in the age of British expansion 1770-1870 - C. A. Bayly, 2012 Book | Essential
Town Building in North India, 1790-1830 - C. A. Bayly, 1975 Article
The Hyderabad Political System and its Participants - Karen Leonard, 1971 Article | Essential
Banking Firms in Nineteenth-Century Hyderabad Politics - Karen Leonard, 1981 Article | Essential
White Mughals: love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India - William Dalrymple, 2004 Book | Recommended for Purchase
Lucknow: memories of a city - Violette Graff, 1997 Book | Background
Claude Martin — ‘A very ingenious man’ - Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 1999-07 Article
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Lucknow in Oxford Art Online Webpage
A fatal friendship: the Nawabs, the British and the city of Lucknow - Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 1985 Book
Lucknow: the last phase of an oriental culture - 'Abdulḥalīm Sharar, E. S. Harcourt, Fakhir Hussain, 1989, c1975 Book | Background
The Lucknow omnibus - ʻAbdulḥalīm Sharar, Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Veena Talwar Oldenburg, c2001 Book
Banaras: city of light - Diana L. Eck, 1993 Book | Essential
The Religious Complex in Eighteenth-Century Poona - Balkrishna Govind Gokhale, 1985 Article | Essential
Politics and trade in the Indian Ocean world: essays in honour of Ashin Das Gupta - Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Lakshmi Subramanian, Ashin Das Gupta, 2003 Book | Background
A Note on the Rise of Surat in the Sixteenth Century - Sanjay Subrahmanyam, 2000 Article
Surat in the seventeenth century: a study of urban history of pre-modern India - Balkrishna Govind Gokhale, 1979 Book | Essential
Indian Merchants and the Western Indian Ocean: The Early Seventeenth Century - Ashin Das Gupta, 1985 Article
INDIAN MERCHANTS AND THE DECLINE OF THE SURAT - A. DAS GUPTA, 1979 Book | Essential
Pieter Phoonsen of Surat, c. 1730-1740 - Ashin Das Gupta, 1988 Article
Commercial World of Mancherji Khurshedji and the Dutch East India Company: A Study of Mutual Relationships - Ghulam Ahmad Nadri, 2007 Article
Surat Revisited a Tribute to Ashin Das Gupta - K. N. Chaudhuri, 2000 Article
Rulers, Merchants and Other Groups in the City-States of Saurashtra, India, around 1800 - Howard Spodek, 1974
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Town Revenues and Taxes in Eighteenth Century Gujarat: An English East India Company Document - Shantha Hariharan, 2003-11-01 Article
Trapped inside the Colonial Order: The Hindu Bankers of Surat and Their Business World during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century - Michelguglielmo Torri, 1991 Article
Surat during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: What Kind of Social Order? A Rejoinder to Lakshmi Subramanian - Michelguglielmo Torri, 1987 Article
The Eighteenth-Century Social Order in Surat: A Reply and an Excursus on the Riots of 1788 and 1795 - Lakshmi Subramanian, 1991 Article
Crafts and Statecraft in Eighteenth Century Jodhpur - Nandita Prasad Sahai, 2007 Article
From Medieval to Colonial: Markets, Territoriality and the Transition in Eighteenth Century Bengal - R. Datta, 1999-04-01 Article
Cities of the Company Raj (33 items)
The city in South Asia - James Heitzman, 2008 Book | Essential | Read Chapter 3.
The rise and growth of the colonial port cities in Asia - Dilip K. Basu, 1985 Book | Essential | Read essays by C.A. Bayly (Inland port cities in North India); Frank Conlon (functions of ethnicity in a colonial port city); Susan Lwandowski (Merchants, Temples and Power in Madras); Partha Mitter (Architectural Planning in Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta); Ashin Das Gupta (Problems of a Pre-Colonial City): Surat, 1740-1750; Jim Masselos (City-State to Capital City); Susan Neild (Urban and Suburban Property in Early 19c Madras).
Calcutta (4 items)
Review essay: Celebrating Calcutta - Partho Datta, 1992-4 Article | Background
Calcutta: the living city, Vol.1: The past - Sukanta Chaudhuri, 1990 Book | Background
Calcutta through British eyes, 1690-1990 - Laura Sykes, 1992 Book | Background
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Death and the Nabob: Imperialism and Commemoration in Eighteenth-Century India - R. Travers, 2007-08-01 Article
Bombay (7 items)
Indigenous capital and imperial expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West Coast - Lakshmi Subramanian, 1996 Book | Background
Trade and Empire in western India 1784-1806 - Pamela Nightingale, 1970 Book | Background
Commerce, Conquest and the Colonial City: Role of Locational Factors in Rise of Bombay - Meera Kosambi, 1985 Article
The Role of Religion in the Transfer and Rise of Bombay, c. 1661-1687 - Glenn J. Ames, 2003 Article
"A PUTRIDNESS IN THE AIR": Monsoons and Mortality in Seventeenth-Century Bombay - Robert Markley, 2010 Article
A trial in transition: Courts, merchants and identities in western India, circa 1800 - L. Subramanian, 2004-07-01 Article | Essential
Free to move, forced to flee: the formation and dissolution of suburbs in colonial Bombay, 1750–1918 - PREETI CHOPRA, 2012-2 Article | Essential
Madras (1 items)
Colonial Urbanism: The Development of Madras City in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Susan M. Neild, 1979 Article | Essential
Urban space and the built environment (8 items)
The Early British Port Cities of India: Their Planning and Architecture Circa 1640-1757 - Partha Mitter, 1986 Article | Essential
European architecture in India, 1750-1850 - Sten Åke Nilsson, 1968 Book | Essential | Read Part 2: 'The Structures'.
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Blurring Boundaries: The Limits of "White Town" in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay, 2000 Article | Essential
Representing Calcutta: modernity, nationalism, and the colonial uncanny - Swati Chattopadhyay, 2006 Book | Background
Urban Development in a Colonial Situation: Early Nineteenth Century Bombay - Amar Farooqui, 1996 Article
Before Race Mattered: Geographies of the Color Line in Early Colonial Madras and New York - Carl H. Nightingale, 2008 Article | Essential
Changing Form and Function in the Ceremonial and the Colonial Port City in India: An Historical Analysis of Madurai and Madras - Susan J. Lewandowski, 1977 Article
Expropriating the Poor: Urban Land Control and Colonial Administration in Late Eighteenth Century Madras City - R. Ahuja, 2001-02-01 Article | Essential
Urban Society (11 items)
The White Town of Calcutta under the Rule of the East India Company - P. J. Marshall, 2000 Article | Essential
The historical anatomy of a contact zone: Calcutta in the eighteenth century - K. Raj, 2011-01-01 Article | Essential
Useful friendship: Europeans and Indians in early Calcutta - Peter Robb, 2014 Book | Essential
Credit, work and race in 1790s Calcutta: Early colonialism through a contemporary European view - P. Robb, 2000-03-01 Article | Essential
Mr Upjohn's Debts: Money and friendship in early colonial Calcutta - PETER ROBB, 2013-7 Article | Essential
Sentiment and self: Richard Blechynden's Calcutta diaries, 1791-1822 - Peter Robb, Richard Blechynden, 2011 Book | Background
Sex and sensibility: Richard Blechynden's Calcutta diaries, 1791-1822 - Peter Robb, Richard Blechynden, 2011 Book | Background
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Children, Emotion, Identity and Empire: Views from the Blechyndens' Calcutta Diaries (1790-1822) - Peter Robb, 2006 Article | Background
Of Corporations and Caste Heads: Urban Rule in Company Madras, 1640–1720 - Aparna Balachandran, 2008 Article | Background
Labour Relations in an Early Colonial Context: Madras, c. 1750-1800 - Ravi Ahuja, 2002 Article | Essential
The British in Benares: A Nineteenth Century Colonial Society - Bernard S. Cohn, 1962 Article | Essential
Imperial visions (27 items)
On 1857 (8 items)
The last Mughal: the fall of Delhi, 1857 - William Dalrymple, 2009 Book | Recommended for Purchase
The Indian Mutiny and the British imagination - Gautam Chakravarty, 2005 Book | Background
Commemorating and Remembering 1857: The Revolt in Delhi and Its Afterlife - Nayanjot Lahiri, 2003 Article | Essential
Besieged : voices from Delhi 1857 - MAHMOOD FAROOQUI, 2012 Book | Essential
Cawnpore, Kipling and Charivari: 1857 and the Politics of Commemoration - Tickell Alex, Autumn 2009 Article | Essential
The Marginal Mutiny: The New Historiography of the Indian Uprising of 1857 - Kim A. Wagner, 2011-10 Article | Background
A Wind of Change: The New British Colonial Policy in Post-Revolt India - Belkacem Belmekki , 2008 Article | Essential
India's colonial encounter: essays in memory of Eric Stokes - Mushirul Hasan, Narayani Gupta, Eric Stokes, 1993 Book
Urban Development (7 items)
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Colonial urban development: culture, social power and environment - Anthony D King, 1976 Book | Essential
Military Security and Urban Development: A Case Study of Delhi 1857-1912 - Narayani Gupta, 1971 Article
The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877 - Veena Talwar Oldenburg, 2014 Book | Essential
Making Lahore modern: constructing and imagining a colonial city - William J. Glover, 2008 Book | Essential
The promise of the metropolis: Bangalore's twentieth century - Janaki Nair, 2005 Book | Essential | Read Chapter 1: Bengaluru/Bangalore: The Presence of the Past
Imperial designs and Indian realities: the planning of Bombay City, 1845-1875 - Mariam Dossal, 1991 Book | Essential
Planning the city: urbanization and reform in Calcutta, c. 1800-c. 1940 - Partho Datta, 2012 Book
Architecture and Empire (7 items)
Architecture and the Representation of Empire: India, 1860-1910 - Thomas R. Metcalf, 1984 Article | Essential
An imperial vision: Indian architecture and Britain's Raj - Thomas R. Metcalf, 1989 Book | Essential
BRITISH ARCHITECTURE IN INDIA 1857-1947 - GAVIN STAMP, 1981 Article | Essential
Forging the Raj: essays on British India in the heyday of Empire - Thomas R. Metcalf, 2005 Book | Essential | Read chapters 6-10.
Stones of Empire: the buildings of the Raj - Jan Morris, Simon Winchester, 1983 Book | Background
Colonial modernities: building, dwelling, and architecture in British India and Ceylon - Peter Scriver, Vikramaditya Prakash, 2007 Book | Essential | Read Chapter 4 by Peter Scriver, entitled 'Empire-Building and Thinking in the Public Works Department of British India'.
Imperial Delhi: the British capital of the Indian empire - Andreas Volwahsen, 2002 Book | Essential
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The City as Spectacle (2 items)
Some Structural and Sequential Aspects of the British Imperial Assemblages at Delhi: 1877-1911 - Alan Trevithick, 1990 Article | Essential
A British Empire for the twentieth century: the inauguration of New Delhi, 1931 - DAVID A. JOHNSON, 2008-12 Article
Hill Stations (3 items)
The magic mountains: hill stations and the British Raj - Dane Kennedy, 1996 Book | Essential
Climate, Race, and Imperial Authority: The Symbolic Landscape of the British Hill Station in India - Judith T. Kenny, 1995 Article | Essential
Imperial Simla: the political culture of the Raj - Pamela Kanwar, 2003 Book
Cities of Industry (21 items)
Bombay (6 items)
The origins of industrial capitalism in India: business strategies and the working classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 - Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, 1994 Book | Essential
Govind Narayan's Mumbai - Govinda Nārāyaṇa Māḍagā ̃ vakara, Murali Ranganathan, 2009 Book | Essential | Read Chapter 10.
The Emergence of Indigenous Industrialists in Calcutta, Bombay, and Ahmedabad, 1850–1947 - Gijsbert Oonk, 2014 Article
Cotton Mill Workers in Bombay, 1875 to 1918: Conditions of Work and Life - Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay, 1990 Article
The emergence of an industrial labor force in India: a study of the Bombay cotton mills, 1854-1947 - Morris David Morris, 1965 Book
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Urban Development and Death: Bombay City, 1870-1914 - Ira Klein, 1986 Article
Calcutta (9 items)
Rethinking working-class history: Bengal, 1890-1940 - Dipesh Chakrabarty, 1989 Book | Essential
Strikes and 'Communal' Riots in Calcutta in the 1890s: Industrial Workers, Bhadralok Nationalist Leadership and the Colonial State - Subho Basu, 1998 Article | Essential
The Paradox of Peasant Worker: Re-Conceptualizing Workers' Politics in Bengal 1890-1939 - Subho Basu, 2008 Article | Essential
Women and labour in late colonial India: the Bengal jute industry - Samita Sen, 1999 Book | Essential
Communalism and Colonial Labour: Experience of Calcutta Jute Mill Workers, 1880-1930 - Parimal Ghosh, 1990 Article
Colonial State and Colonial Working Conditions: Aspects of the Experience of Bengal Jute Mill Hands, 1881-1930 - Parimal Ghosh, 1994 Article
The Paradox of Peasant Worker: Re-Conceptualizing Workers' Politics in Bengal 1890-1939 - Subho Basu, 2008 Article
On Deifying and Defying Authority: Managers and Workers in the Jute Mills of Bengal circa 1890-1940 - Dipesh Chakrabarty, 1983 Article
Communal Riots and Labour: Bengal's Jute Mill-Hands in the 1890s - Dipesh Chakrabarty, 1981 Article
Kanpur (2 items)
Lost worlds: Indian labour and its forgotten histories - Chitra Joshi, 2005 Book | Essential
Kanpur Textile Labour: Some Structural Features of Formative Years - Chitra Joshi, 1981 Article
Small town capitalism in Western India: artisans, merchants and the making of the informal economy, 1870-1960 - Douglas E. Haynes, 2012
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The worlds of Indian industrial labour - Jonathan P Parry, Jan Breman, Karin Kapadia, Worlds of Indian Industrial Labour, 1999 Book | Background
Ahmedabad: a study in Indian urban history - Kenneth L. Gillion, 1968 Book | Essential
Representation and Representations of the Railways of Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia - Ian J. Kerr, 2003 Article | Essential
Governing the City (14 items)
Beyond nationalism: modernity, governance and a new urban history for India - JANAKI NAIR, 2009-8 Article | Essential
Colonial Urbanism and South Asian cities - Eric Beverley Article | Essential
Delhi between two empires, 1803-1931: society, government and urban growth - Narayani Gupta, 1981 Book | Essential
Imperial power and popular politics: class, resistance and the state in India, c. 1850-1950 - Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, 1998 Book | Essential | Read Chapter 6: Police and public order in Bombay
The making of an Indian metropolis: colonial governance and public culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 - Prashant Kidambi, 2007 Book | Essential | Read chapters 3-5
Spaces of colonialism: Delhi's urban governmentalities - Stephen Legg, 2007 Book | Essential
The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877 - Veena Talwar Oldenburg, 2014 Book | Essential
Imperial Ritual in a Local Setting: The Ceremonial Order in Surat, 1890-1939 - Douglas Haynes, 1990 Article | Essential
Colonial urban development: culture, social power and environment - Anthony D King, 1976 Book | Essential
Urban Politics in the Local Kingdoms of India: A View from the Princely Capitals of Saurashtra under British Rule - Howard Spodek, 1973
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The ruling caste: imperial lives in the Victorian Raj - David Gilmour, 2007 Book
In the city, out of place: nuisance, pollution, and dwelling in Delhi, c.1850-2000 - Awadhendra B. Sharan, 2014 Book
Urban ‘Failures’: Municipal Governance, Planning and Power in Colonial Delhi, 1863–1910 - Raghav Kishore, 2015-10 Article
Governmentality, congestion and calculation in colonial Delhi - Stephen Legg, 2006-10 Article
Public Culture and the City (12 items)
Civil society, public sphere and citizenship: dialogues and perceptions - Rajeev Bhargava, Helmut Reifeld, 2005 Book | Essential | Read the introduction and the essay by Neeladri Bhattacharya, 'Notes Towards a Conception of the Coloial Public'.
Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India: the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 - Douglas E. Haynes, c1991 Book | Essential
The making of an Indian metropolis: colonial governance and public culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 - Prashant Kidambi, 2007 Book | Essential | Read chapters 6-7.
Power in print: popular publishing and the politics of language and culture in a colonial society, 1778-1905 - Aninditā Ghosha, 2006 Book | Essential
Govind Narayan's Mumbai - Govinda Nārāyaṇa Māḍagā ̃ vakara, Murali Ranganathan, 2009 Book | Essential
Calcutta: the living city, Vol.1: The past - Sukanta Chaudhuri, 1990 Book | Essential
Calcutta: the living city, Vol.2: The present and future - Sukanta Chaudhuri, 1990 Book | Essential
Bombay: mosaic of modern culture - Sujata Patel, Alice Thorner, 1996 Book | Essential
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Bombay: metaphor for modern India - Sujata Patel, Alice Thorner, 1996 Book | Essential
Culture and power in Banaras: community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980 - Sandria B. Freitag, 1989 Book | Essential
Writing social history - Sumit Sarkar, 1997 Book | Essential
Pleasure and the nation: the history, politics, and consumption of public culture in India - Rachel Dwyer, Christopher Pinney, 2001 Book | Essential
Theatres of Politics (16 items)
India's Theaters of Independence - Sunil Khilnani, 1997 Article | Essential
The city in action: Bombay struggles for power - Jim Masselos, 2007 Book | Essential
Imperial power and popular politics: class, resistance and the state in India, c. 1850-1950 - Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, 1998 Book | Essential | Read chapters 4-5.
The politics of the urban poor in early twentieth-century India - Nandini Gooptu, 2001 Book | Essential
Nationalism and the City in Colonial India: Bombay, c. 1890-1940 - P. Kidambi, 2012-09-01 Article | Essential
Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India: the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 - Douglas E. Haynes, c1991 Book | Essential
The local roots of Indian politics: Allahabad, 1880-1920 - C. A. Bayly, 1975 Book | Essential
The colonial city and the challenge of modernity: urban hegemonies and civic contestations in Bombay City, 1905-1925 - Sandip Hazareesingh, 2007 Book | Essential
Collective action and community: public arenas and the emergence of communalism in north India - Sandria B. Freitag, 1989 Book | Essential
Disciplining Sholapur: the industrial city and its workers in the period of the Congress ministry, 1937–1939 - MANJIRI KAMAT, 2010-1 Article | Essential
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Questions of class: The general strikes in Bombay, 1928-29 - R. Chandavarkar, 1999-02-01 Article | Essential
Urban roots of Indian nationalism: pressure groups and conflict of interests in Calcutta City politics, 1875-1939 - Rajat Kanta Ray, c1979 Book | Essential
Essays on Gandhian politics: the Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919 - Rawindara Kumāra, 1971 Book | Essential
Calcutta: the living city, Vol.2: The present and future - Sukanta Chaudhuri, 1990 Book | Essential
The Muslim Mass Contact Campaign: An Attempt at Political Mobilisation - Mushirul Hasan, 1986 Article | Essential
The Quest for Urban Citizenship: Civic Rights, Public Opinion, and Colonial Resistance in Early Twentieth-Century Bombay - Sandip Hazareesingh, 2000 Article
Divided Cities (16 items)
Background reading on the Parition (6 items)
The partition of India - Ian Talbot, Gurharpal Singh, 2009 Book | Background
The great partition: the making of India and Pakistan - Yasmin Khan, 2007 Book | Background
India's partition: process, strategy and mobilization - Mushirul Hasan, 1993 Book | Background
Remembering partition: violence, nationalism, and history in India - G. Pandey, 2001 Book | Background
The long partition and the making of modern South Asia: refugees, boundaries, histories - Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, 2007 Book | Background
Partition Studies: Prospects and Pitfalls - Joya Chatterji, 2014-05 Article | Background
Partition and post-colonial South Asia: a reader - Tai Yong Tan, Gyanesh Kudaisya, 2008 Book | Essential | VOL.3: Read essay by Gyanesh Kudaisya
Divided cities: Partition and its aftermath in Lahore and Amritsar, 1947-1957 - Ian Talbot, 2006
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A Tale of Two Cities: The Aftermath of Partition for Lahore and Amritsar 1947-1957 - Ian Talbot, 2007 Article | Essential
Partition, memory and trauma: Voices of Punjabi refugee migrants in Lahore and Amritsar - Ian Talbot, 2006-06 Article | Essential
Partition and Independence in Delhi: 1947-48 - Gyanendra Pandey, 1997 Article | Essential
Narrative absence: An 'Untouchable' account of Partition migration - R. Kaur, 2008-05-01 Article | Essential
Hindu space: urban dislocations in post-partition Calcutta - Romola Sanyal, 2014-01 Article | Essential
The 1992 Calcutta Riot in Historical Continuum: A Relapse into 'Communal Fury'? - Suranjan Das, 2000 Article | Essential
'Dispersal' and the Failure of Rehabilitation: Refugee Camp-dwellers and Squatters in West Bengal - Joya Chatterji, 2007 Article | Essential
Dispositions and Destinations: Refugee Agency and “Mobility Capital” in the Bengal Diaspora, 1947–2007 - Joya Chatterji, 2013-4 Article | Essential
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