Urbanisation in Bengal

Ideas, Institutions and Policies
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-80086-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urbanization of Bengal from ancient to postcolonial times. It analyses the notion of urban space, examines the institutions which constitute the ‘urban’, and explores the crises brought about by the Partition.

The book highlights the key features of urbanization in colonial Bengal––the print culture, institutions of Western education and Western medicine, and the census as a ‘modern form of knowledge’. It also looks at the refugee movement and discusses the contribution of Partition refugees in urbanizing Bengal.

Rich in archival sources, this book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of urban history, urban studies, Indian history, colonial history, postcolonial studies, partition studies, and South Asian history, particularly those interested in Bengal.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakravarty, Pallavi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables Notes on contributors Preface by Gopa Samanta Editor’s Introduction Section I: An Idea of the Urban Space: From Ancient to Modern Times 1. Early Historic Urbanization in Bengal: Bangarh, a Case Study 2. Cities of the Mind: Representing the Urban in Colonial Bengal Section II: Institutions of the Urban: Print, Education, Health, Census 3. Popular Print Culture in the late 19th and early 20th century Calcutta 4. Breaking Barriers: Women’s Movement and Writings from Late Colonial Bengal 5. Struggle for space: Bengali Women and Urbanization of Colonial Calcutta 6. The Politics Of Census: Bengal And The 1941 Population Enumeration Section III: A Struggle for the Urban: Partition and Related Crises 7. From Refugees To Citizens Popular Protests In West Bengal 1947-6o 8. Carrying on the ‘Rural Home’ in the midst of the ‘Urban Jungle’: Refugee Colonies in the Post-Partitioned Calcutta 9. ‘Refugee-woman’ in post-Partition Bengal: A Critical Re-assessment of their Roles and Image Section IV: The Urban in the Present: Possibilities and Challenges 10. Industrialization, Migration and (Un)making of a City: Durgapur Experience

Über Autor(innen)

Pallavi Chakravarty is Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi, New Delhi, India. She is the author of Boundaries and Belonging: Rehabilitation of Refugees in India, 1947-71 (2022). She was also Junior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (now Pradhan Mantri Museum and Library, New Delhi). Her primary areas of research are partition studies, women and migration, oral histories. She has authored research papers which have been published in peer reviewed journals and edited volumes of national and international repute.