{"product_id":"9780199464791","title":"Claiming the City : Protest, Crime, and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1860-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the administrative and commercial capital of British India and as one of the earliest experiments in modern urbanization in the sub-continent, Calcutta proved enormously challenging to both its residents and its architects. In this imaginative study of colonial Calcutta, Anindita Ghosh charts the history of its urbanization from below- in its streets, strikes, and popular urban cultures. \n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eClaiming the City offers a close-up view of the citys underbelly by drawing in a range of non-archival sources- from illustrations and amateur photographs to street songs, local histories, and memoirs - which show that Calcutta was not just a problem to be disciplined and governed, as the colonialists would have us believe. Instead, the city emerges as a lively and crucial site for the shaping of the discourse on claims to urban spaces and resources by various marginal groups. Ghosh uses the everyday as a prism for exposing the wide spectrum of political and social imaginaries that shaped the city and shows how the once proverbial City of Palaces slowly turned into a city of endemic unrest and strife.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP India","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48664638947563,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":91.56,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780199464791-1.jpg?v=1781783023","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9780199464791","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}