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The city has had a long history in India, from the urban civilization of the Indus Valley in 2500 BCE to the megalopolis found in contemporary India. This is the first anthology of the city in India since around 1800, with an accent on the twentieth century. Drawing on fiction, poetry, essays, travel narratives, and scholarly studies in history, anthropology, and cultural studies, this two-volume anthology presents insights into the city with a mix of readings from the most renowned writers, established scholars and authors, and younger voices.
Including poems, short stories, essays, and social commentaries by 54 writers, this volume, in particular, looks at the mosaic of the city, the city of imagination, the city in colonial India, the architecture of the city and its streets. With contributions from leading writers and scholars including U.R. Ananthamurthy, Diana L. Eck, Arjun Appadurai, Dilip Chitre, Charles Correa, Rabindranath Tagore, Mark Twain, Salman Rushdie, Herbert Baker, A.K. Ramanujan, Lina M. Fruzzetti, and Majrooh Sultanpuri, this volume comes with a comprehensive Introduction by Vinay Lal which sets the context for the writings and a special 'further reading: a select bibliography' for the interested reader.
Contents
PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; INTRODUCTION: MODERN INDIA AND THE CLAIMS OF THE CITY ; MOSAIC OF THE CITY: FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR / MARK TWAIN ; A HANDSOME CITY SEATED ON TWO BAYS / SIR EDWIN ARNOLD ; IRANI RESTAURANT INSTRUCTIONS / NISSIM EZEKIEL ; A MORNING WALK / NISSIM EZEKIEL ; CITY LANDSCAPE / GIEVE PATEL ; MY FATHER TRAVELS / DILIP CHITRE ; FROM BOMBAY CENTRAL / GIEVE PATEL ; VERTIGO / ASHOK BANKER ; A VOYEUR IS BORN & DEATH OF A WELL / SALEEM PEERADINA ; NAGAR-SANGIT (SONG OF THE CITY) / RABINDRANATH TAGORE ; CALCUTTA / BUDDHADEVA BOSE ; CALCUTTA IF YOU MUST EXILE ME / PRITISH NANDY ; CALCUTTA'S JESUS / NIRENDRANATH CHAKRAVARTY ; CITY OF MEMORIES / SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY ; CALCUTTA CONVERSATIONS / LINA FRUZZETTI AND AKOS OSTOR ; BANARAS / KEDARNATH SINGH ; A KAYASTHA'S VIEW OF DELHI / RAVI DAYAL ; DELHI / GHULAM M. SHEIKH ; CORRIDOR: A GRAPHIC NOVEL / SARNATH BANERJEE ; DAILY HURTS / KULWINDER KAUR ; CITY SIMIANS & THE RIDGE / RANJIT LAL ; LUCKNOW / KUNWAR NARAIN ; FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE / K.S. NARASIMHASWAMY ; THE CITY, EVENING, AND AN OLD MAN: ME / DHOOMIL ; CITYSCAPE / NIRUPAMA DUTT ; IMAGINATION OF THE CITY, THE CITY OF IMAGINATION: OH! CALCUTTA (FOLKTALE) / A.K. RAMANUJAN ; CITY AND VILLAGE / RABINDRANATH TAGORE ; YEH HAI BOMBAY MERI JAAN / MAJROOH SULTANPURI ; THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH / SALMAN RUSHDIE ; SATYAJIT RAY'S CALCUTTA: FRIEND OR ADVERSARY? / AMITABHA BHATTACHARYA ; BANARAS: CITY OF DEATH / DIANA L. ECK ; LALOO'S PATNA, AND MINE / AMITAVA KUMAR ; THE STRANGE CASE OF THE MONKEYMAN / ADITYA NIGAM ; OORU AND THE WORLD / U.R. ANANTHAMURTHY ; THE ALTERNATIVE COSMOPOLITANISM OF COCHIN / ASHIS NANDY ; THE CITY IN COLONIAL INDIA: THE OBSERVANT OWL / KALIPRASANNA SINHA ; THE OPENING OF THE EAST INDIAN RAILWAYS / G.H. ; OPIUM CITY: EARLY VICTORIAN BOMBAY / AMAR FAROOQUI ; HYDERABAD / NARENDRA LUTHER ; A VISION OF INDIA / SIDNEY LOW ; AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN INDIAN / NIRAD CHAUDHURI ; AHMEDABAD: A STUDY IN URBAN INDIAN HISTORY / KENNETH L. GILLION ; THE CITY POLITICAL: A PORTFOLIO / SUDHIR PATWARDHAN; NOTE ON THE ARTIST: VINAY LAL ; SPACES, SIGHTS, SURROUNDINGS: ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY AND ITS STREETS: THE NEW DELHI / HERBERT BAKER ; SPACE AS A RESOURCE: THE NEW LANDSCAPE / CHARLES CORREA ; STREET CULTURE / ARJUN APPADURAI ; A HISTORY OF CALCUTTA'S STREETS / P. THANKAPPAN NAIR ; PUNJABI BAROQUE / GAUTAM BHATIA ; MUMBAI / SUKETU MEHTA ; THE URBAN LANDSCAPE OF DEEWAAR / VINAY LAL ; FURTHER READING: A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
