Images of Delhi

A Literary and Humanistic Geography of Post-independence India
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-28584-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

The main objective of this book is to analyze prominent literary images of Delhi in post-independence India. The author has probed into a number of eminent writings in Hindi, English and other languages. The author's methodology, a humanistic and phenomenological approach, allows exploration of experiential dimension of writers’ and their characters in various genres of literature. An inquiry into perceptions and imagination in literature enriches the understanding of place, space, time, and seasons, the concerns central to geography. 
The Perceptions of the metropolis of Delhi interestingly vary between authors and their characters. The images of Delhi in plethora of literary works show a wide spectrum of colors. The images evoke feelings of reverence, love, adoration, dislike, indifference or neutrality. Experiences vary from places of beauty and grandeur to utterly ugly environments. Natives express different views and attitudes toward the city of Delhi from those of expatriate writers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dhussa, Ramesh Chandra

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Humanistic study of urban images.- Delhi: Evolution of an urban region.- Images of Delhi in Indo-Anglian and Hindi literary works.- Delhi: As an idea.- Old Delhi (Shahjehanabad) and adjacent regions.- New Delhi and neighboring colonies.- Four authors and their perceptions of Delhi.- Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Ramesh Chandra Dhussa, Professor Emeritus geography, taught geography for more than 30 years in the Drake university, Des Moines, Iowa, the USA. He completed his Ph.D. in geography from the Kent State university, Kent, Ohio, in the year 1986. His M.A., also in geography, is from the University of Akron, Ohio, USA in the year 1976. In India, he completed his M.A. in geography in the year 1961, from Patna university, Patna, Bihar. His research in graduate studies focused on humanistic and literary geography. He is among the pioneer to use the term ‘literary geography’ in the literature. Ramesh published a couple of books, one in geography on South Asia (Global Studies: India and South Asia) and another a story collection book of his short stories (Bahut Accha Aadmi, in Hindi). Ramesh’s stories are published in various prestigious Hindi short story journals. He has published more than a dozen geography research papers in various national and international journals andanthologies. He is a member of the editorial board of the Literary Geography Journal. He is planning to write literary geography papers based on the writings of Indian writers of various times. In addition, he also devotes time in short story writing.