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Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata : From a Colonial to a Post-Marxist City / Siddhartha Sen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian Cities ; 5Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (289 p.) : 92 halftones, 5 line drawingsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789462981119
  • 9789048530687
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954/.147 23
LOC classification:
  • DS486.C2 S46 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note to Readers -- 1. Overture -- 2. Colonizing Kolkata -- 3. Building a Neo-Classical, Beautiful, and Clean City -- 4. Decolonizing Kolkata -- 5. Globalizing Kolkata -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- Glossary -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Colonising, Decolonising, and Globalising Kolkata offers an extended analysis of the architecture of Kolkata from the earliest days of colonialism through independence and on into the twenty-first century, all set in the larger context of Indian cities and architecture. What Siddhartha Sen shows is the transformation of a colonial city into a Marxist one-and ongoing attempts to further transform it into a global city. Richly illustrated, the book carefully situates architecture, design, and urban planning within Kolkata's political economy and social milieu.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note to Readers -- 1. Overture -- 2. Colonizing Kolkata -- 3. Building a Neo-Classical, Beautiful, and Clean City -- 4. Decolonizing Kolkata -- 5. Globalizing Kolkata -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- Glossary -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index

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Colonising, Decolonising, and Globalising Kolkata offers an extended analysis of the architecture of Kolkata from the earliest days of colonialism through independence and on into the twenty-first century, all set in the larger context of Indian cities and architecture. What Siddhartha Sen shows is the transformation of a colonial city into a Marxist one-and ongoing attempts to further transform it into a global city. Richly illustrated, the book carefully situates architecture, design, and urban planning within Kolkata's political economy and social milieu.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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