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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Housing policy
ISBN : UOM:39015032593256
On the slum-dwellers of Kolkata; a report.
Author : Frederic C. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315479231
Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation. In this illuminating critique, Thomas investigates the standard solutions - improved housing, increased job creation, and intervention of social services agencies - only to come to the conclusion that such initiatives have little effect on the inherent nature of the problem of poverty. Based on historical and anthropological findings, and the author's visits to the slums of Calcutta, what becomes clear is that even in the midst of great poverty, there is a nobility of character, a vitality of ethnic and cultural ties, and an energy that bring out inventiveness and ingenuity in the lives of the poor. If Calcutta's poverty is not to be an intractable problem, these internal forces must be awakened to generate solutions. Illustrated with stunning photographs, Thomas's reflections provide new insight into an age-old problem.
Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843690802
Author : Suchandra Ghosh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000462364
This book looks at the typologies of cities and ideas of urbanity. Focusing specifically on cities in South Asia, it analyses the unique planning concepts, archaeology, art, culture, life, and philosophy of various cities of ancient and modern South Asia. The book explores the concept of urbanity and the idea of an ideal city; it interrogates general notions of urbanity by juxtaposing city life in various periods and geographies of South Asia. By analysing the demography, architecture, rituals, and culture of various cities, it looks at the different spatialities of these places in terms of their size, population, commerce, and philosophy as well as the reasons behind the transformation of these places into urban centres. Drawing from various archeological and literary sources, the volume includes rich details about heterogeneity, rituals, festivals, social stratification, penal systems, famines, and insurrections in ancient cities as well as modern cities like Lahore, Dhaka, and Calcutta, among many others in South Asia. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of ancient and modern history, archaeology, urban studies, urban and town planning, urban sociology, urban geography, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, ancient and medieval architecture, heritage studies, conservation studies, and South Asian studies.
Author : Bidyut Chakrabarty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015042707276
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:B2500610
Author : Indian Anthropological Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015073111521
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UOM:39015048801156
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110563629
Author : Bret Thiele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : WISC:89074966847
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1380 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English imprints
ISBN : UOM:39015060789503
Author : Peter M. Elliott
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803139302
Dickie Gordon, lucky to escape the Japanese Invading Burma in April,1941, is re-instated as a district officer in Bengal, India. He struggles to maintain the integrity of the Civil Service beseiged by ambitious politicians, corruption, and ruthless terrorists, a mix that hastens the disintegration of the Raj.
Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300274462
A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan “[A] definitive new 20th-century thematic history of the Indian subcontinent that rejects hegemonic conceptions of national ‘difference.’”—Financial Times This radically original and ambitious history of the Indian subcontinent explores the region’s unique twentieth-century history and foregrounds the deep connections, rather than the well-publicized fissures, between the cultures of India and Pakistan. Taking the partitions of British India rather than the two world wars as the century’s inflection points, Joya Chatterji examines how issues of nationalism, internal and external migration, and technological innovation contributed to South Asia’s tumultuous twentieth century. Chatterji weaves together elements of her autobiography and family history; stories of such legendary figures as Tagore, Jinnah, Gandhi, and Nehru; and, in particular, the accounts of the many who were left behind and marginalized in relentless nation-building projects. Chatterji examines the countries’ mirroring patterns in state building, social and cultural life, modes of leisure, consumption, and oppression, and offers a timely course correction to our understanding of the dynamics of South Asian history. It reframes the events of the twentieth century that are continuing to play out in the present day.
Author : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07
Category : South Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015065124219
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Local government
ISBN : UCAL:B2863184