09/27/21 HS3697: Cities and the Making of Modern South Asia, c. 1750-1950 | readinglists@leicester 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 1/16 09/27/21 HS3697: Cities and the Making of Modern South Asia, c. 1750-1950 | readinglists@leicester 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 2/16 09/27/21 HS3697: Cities and the Making of Modern South Asia, c. 1750-1950 | readinglists@leicester 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 3/16 09/27/21 HS3697: Cities and the Making of Modern South Asia, c. 1750-1950 | readinglists@leicester 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 4/16 09/27/21 HS3697: Cities and the Making of Modern South Asia, c. 1750-1950 | readinglists@leicester Article 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 5/16 09/27/21 HS3697: Cities and the Making of Modern South Asia, c. 1750-1950 | readinglists@leicester 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 |