Representing Calcutta: modernity, nationalism and the colonial uncanny (Record no. 1475)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20181220153510.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0-415-34359-3 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | AIKTC-KRRC |
| Transcribing agency | AIKTC-KRRC |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | ENG |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 720.954147 |
| Item number | CHA |
| Edition number | DDC23 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Chattopadhyay, Swati |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1425 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Representing Calcutta: modernity, nationalism and the colonial uncanny |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2005 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvi,314 Pages |
| Other physical details | Paperback |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 4867 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | ARCHITECTURE BY REGION (AR-REG) |
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| Koha item type | Books |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Circulation | School of Architecture | School of Architecture | General Stacks | 14/01/2015 | Word Bookshop | 895.00 | 720.954147 CHA | A1520 | 20/06/2025 | Books |