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Bureaucracy, belonging, and the city in North India : 1870-1930 / Michael S Dodson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dodson, Michael S., 1968- author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in South Asian history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--India, North--History--19th century.
- City planning.
- Bureaucracy--India, North--History--19th century.
- Bureaucracy.
- History.
- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India : District)--History--19th century.
- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India : District).
- North India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- First ED.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Michael S. Dodson is Associate Professor of South Asian History at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. His previous books include Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture: India, 1770-1880 (2007), Banaras: Urban Forms and Cultural Histories (Routledge, 2011) and Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia (Routledge, 2012).
- Contents:
- Part I: The Banaras technoscape (and its discontents)
- A riot in Banaras
- Resorting to the language of stereotypes
- Filth, disgust, and governance
- Illness and hardship
- Creating the modern from the traditional
- Do you think the river is dirty?
- Administrative infrastructures
- Taxation and the transactional state
- To contemplate what was and what might have been
- Part II: The crafting of historical space
- Lord Curzon tours Jaunpur, James Fergusson in hand
- Ruination and un-ruination
- Files and archives
- Three mosques and a committee
- Not all tombs are created equal
- Act VII and the not-seeing of Banaras Information Classification: General
- A Sharqi mosque in Banaras
- A further note on whitewash
- The ruins of now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Dodson, Michael S., 1968- Bureaucracy, belonging, and the city in North India.
- ISBN:
- 9781003017233
- 1003017231
- 9781000051360
- 1000051366
- 9781000051346
- 100005134X
- 9781000051322
- 1000051323
- Publisher Number:
- 99985199696
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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