LEADER 03448cam 22005058i 4500001 on1153336413 003 OCoLC 005 20200519150223.8 008 200421s2020 enk b 001 0 eng 010 2020013835 020 9781108489898 020 1108489893 020 |z9781108779654 |q(ebook) 035 (Sirsi) o1153336413 035 (OCoLC)1153336413 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 a-ii--- 050 00 HT147.I5 |bG58 2020 082 00 307.760954/147 |223 100 1 Ghosh, Nabaparna, |eauthor. |=^A1413599 245 12 A hygienic city-nation : |bspace, community, and everyday life in colonial Calcutta / |cNabaparna Ghosh. 263 2006 264 1 Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York : |bCambridge University Press, |c2020. 300 pages cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 520 "Calcutta, the centre of British imperial power in India, figures in scholarship as the locus of colonialism and the hotbed of anti-colonial nationalist movements. Yet historians have largely ignored how the city shaped these movements. This monograph is the first academic work that examines everyday urban formations in the colonial city that informed the broad global forces of imperialism, nationalism, and urbanism, and were, in turn, shaped by them. Drawing on previously unexplored archives of the Calcutta Improvement Trust and neighbourhood clubs, the author uncovers hidden stories of the city at the everyday level of neighbourhoods or paras, where kinship-like ties, caste, religion, and ethnicity constituted new urban modernity. By the early twentieth century, paras grew as microcosms of a city-nation or a city designed to unite a Hindu-Bengali nation. Ghosh focuses on an emergent discourse on Hindu spatial hygiene that powered nationalist pedagogic efforts to train city dwellers in conduct fit for the city-nation. In such pedagogic efforts, upper-caste Bengalis were pitted against the lower-caste working poor and featured as ideal inhabitants of the city: the citizen"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Urbanization |xSocial aspects |zIndia |zKolkata |xHistory. |=^A12118 650 0 Neighborhoods |zIndia |zKolkata |xHistory. |=^A67465 650 0 Urban sanitation |zIndia |zKolkata |xHistory. |=^A1146613 650 0 Urban health |zIndia |zKolkata |xHistory. |=^A9798 650 0 Nationalism |zIndia |zKolkata |xHistory. |=^A81918 651 0 Kolkata (India) |xHistory |y19th century. |=^A72710 651 0 Kolkata (India) |xHistory |y20th century. |=^A72710 776 08 |iOnline version:Ghosh, Nabaparna. |tHygienic city-nation |dCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. |z9781108779654 |w(DLC) 2020013836 949 Order on Demand |wASIS |hJOYNER219 960 |o1 |s99.99 |uJSOC |zUSD 961 |fDMD |m138099 596 1 998 5543241