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Representing Calcutta

Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny

By: Swati Chattopadhyay

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Representing Calcutta

Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny

By: Swati Chattopadhyay

Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perception of Calcutta.

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Psychology Press

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0415343593

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Representing Calcutta

Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny

By: Swati Chattopadhyay

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Representing Calcutta

Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny

By: Swati Chattopadhyay

Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two inter-related concerns about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as the worst case scenario of a Third World city -- the proverbial 'city of dreadful nights.' Second is the changing nature of the city’s public spaces -- the demise of certain forms of urban sociality that has been mourned in recent literature as the passing of Bengali modernity. By examining architecture, city plans, paintings, literature, and official reports through the lens of postcolonial, feminist, and spatial theory, the book explores the conditions of colonialism and anti-colonial nationalism that produced the city as a modern artefact. At the centre of this exploration resides the problem of 'representing' the city, representation understood as description and narration, as well as political representation. In doing so, Chattopadhyay questions the very idea of colonial cities as creations of the colonizers, and the model of colonial cities as dual cities, split in black and white areas, in favour of a more complicated view of the topography.

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331

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Routledge

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1134289421

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9781134289424

Small Spaces

Recasting the Architecture of Empire

By: Swati Chattopadhyay

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Small Spaces

Recasting the Architecture of Empire

By: Swati Chattopadhyay

Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people-the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities-who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale. Taking the British empire in India as its primary focus, this book presents eighteen short, readable chapters to explore an array of overlooked places and spaces. From cook rooms and slave quarters to outhouses, go-downs, and medicine cupboards, each chapter reveals how and why these kinds of minor spaces are so important to understanding colonialism. With the focus of history so often on the large scale - global trade networks, vast regions, and architectures of power and domination - Small Spaces shows instead how we need to rethink this aura of magnitude so that our reading is not beholden such imperialist optics. With chapters which can be read separately as individual accounts of objects, spaces, and buildings, and introductions showing how this critical methodology can challenge the methods and theories of urban and architectural history, Small Spaces is a must-read for anyone wishing to decolonize disciplinary practices in the field of architectural, urban, and colonial history. Altogether, it provides a paradigm-breaking account of how to 'unlearn empire', whether in British India or elsewhere.

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356

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350288241

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9781350288249

Carnation Monthly Term Book Class 04 Term 03

By: Abha Sahgal & Dipali Mitra & Neha Jindal & Kusum Wadhwa & Anju Loomba & Swati Panchal

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Carnation Monthly Term Book Class 04 Term 03

By: Abha Sahgal & Dipali Mitra & Neha Jindal & Kusum Wadhwa & Anju Loomba & Swati Panchal

Carnation Monthly Term Book Class 04 Term 03

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116

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New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd

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9352728262

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9789352728268

Unequal: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours

By: Swati Narayan

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Unequal: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours

By: Swati Narayan

A newborn girl can expect to live to eighty in Sri Lanka, seventy-four in Bangladesh and sixty-nine in India. This is but one of a range of Swati Narayan’s insights from a five-year study across four countries: India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. She found that even poorer neighbours were doing better than India on a range of social indicators: health, nutrition, education, sanitation, with more women working outside the home. Narayan’s intensive, immersive research shows that India’s leapfrogging neighbours have worked hard to dilute social inequalities. Land reforms, investments in schools and hospitals, and socio-political reform movements aimed at diluting caste and gender discrimination - all of these have wrought change over the decades. Excellent networks of primary healthcare clinics, village schools and household toilets have transformed the lives of citizens in these countries. In economically booming India, on the other hand, social ills like sex-selective abortion, child stunting, illiteracy and preventable deaths are rampant. Inequalities are stark here—not only between the burgeoning billionaire class and the neglected masses, but also among the northern states and their southern counterparts. However, it is in fact the successes in states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala that offer grounds for optimism—India is capable of transformation if governments commit to social welfare investments and bridging social inequities. Packed with human stories as well as hard data, and shot through with empathy and hope, Swati Narayan’s Unequal is a necessary book for our times.

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Context

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9357769986

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9789357769983

Modern Digital Physics

By: Dr. Nand Kumar,Prof B. K. Sarkar,Dr. Arti Hadap,Swati Tyagi

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Modern Digital Physics

By: Dr. Nand Kumar,Prof B. K. Sarkar,Dr. Arti Hadap,Swati Tyagi

Discover the profound impact of Einstein's theories of relativity on our understanding of the universe with "Modern Digital Physics". From uncovering the historical development of physics to exploring the experimental evidence that has supported relativity, this book dives into the key concepts of special and general relativity and sheds light on complex phenomena such as time dilation and the equivalence principle. You will not only learn the scientific contributions of relativity but also how it has changed the course of art, literature, and philosophy. - Unlock a deeper understanding of the classical mechanics of Galileo and Newton and the groundbreaking ideas of Einstein - Uncover the transformative power of relativity and its implications in quantum mechanics and unified theories - Explore the cultural and intellectual impact of relativity and its influence on fields beyond physics - Discover the experimental evidence that has supported relativity This comprehensive exploration of Einstein's theories of relativity provides a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand its profound impact on our understanding of the universe. Buy now before the price changes!

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Book Saga Publications

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9798989488339

Making Place

Space and Embodiment in the City

By: Arijit Sen,Lisa Silverman

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Making Place

Space and Embodiment in the City

By: Arijit Sen,Lisa Silverman

An analysis of how city dwellers interact with their social and materials worlds in everyday life and how this affects their bodies. Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are implicated in the making and experiencing of place. The contributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a new methodological approach that incorporates both material and abstract perspectives in the study of people and place, and encourages consideration of the various levels—from the personal to the planetary—at which spatial change occurs. The book’s case studies come from Costa Rica, Colombia, India, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. “Rich, diverse, and provocative meditations on place and identity formation . . . it builds on the previous scholarship on bodies, memory and place while also moving our understanding of this theme in a refreshing and engaging direction.” —Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia

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219

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Indiana University Press

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0253011493

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9780253011497

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