Passage to modernity: American social scientists, India, and the pursuit of...
"Passage to Modernity" is a history of the American experts who sought to "modernize" the post-1945 world. It traces the origins of postwar development to India and examines how one group of experts,...
View ArticleTechnology and Tricks: Intra-Household Technology Implementation and Gender...
This article argues for non-asset-based approaches to the assessment of technology implementation at the household level. It suggests that most studies of technology and gender focus primarily on the...
View ArticleIndianizing Indian Architecture: A Postmodern Tradition
Since the 1980s a tendency to Indianize architecture has emerged in the works of prominent architectural practitioners in India. What makes this development postmodern as well as distinctly Indian is...
View ArticleSome Notes on the Palaces of the Imperial Gurjara Pratīhāras
The Gurjara Pratīhāras have long been recognised as the leading royal house of northern India during the ninth and tenth centuries. A considerable number of copper plate and stone inscriptions have...
View ArticleChawls: Analysis of a middle class housing type in Mumbai, India
This thesis documents and analyzes a building-type called chawl in Mumbai, India. Typically occupied by middle class residents, chawls provide access to a range of services and, most importantly, a...
View ArticleMaps and Mother Goddesses in Modern India
J. B. Harley notes that 'maps as an impersonal type of knowledge tend to "desocialize" the territory they represent; they foster the notion of a socially empty space'. Focusing on twentieth-century...
View ArticleArt. X.— Sîgiri, the Lion Rock, near Pulastipura, Ceylon; and the...
In Lat. 7° 59′ N., Long. 81° E., about fourteen miles N.E. of Dambulla, and about seventeen miles nearly due W. of Parâkrama Bâhu's capital, Pulastipura, is the singular natural stronghold referred to...
View ArticleDepicting Calcutta
At the beginning of the nineteenth century most English visitors to Calcutta recorded positive impressions. Calcutta acquired a reputation for its fine buildings; it was called the "city of palaces."...
View ArticleHistory and Anthropology in South Asia: Rethinking the Archive
This article examines the relationship between history and anthropology in South Asia during the past two decades, a relationship that has done much to shape the emerging intellectual practices of...
View ArticleTime Travel to a Possible Self: Searching for the Alternative Cosmopolitanism...
Cochin or Kochi is one of the few cities in India where the precolonial traditions of cultural pluralism refuse to die. It is one of the largest natural harbours in India and has also become, during...
View ArticleRule By Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi
A new theory of the role of aesthetics and visual appearance in how cities and urban populations are governed, and how the urban poor contest their displacementThe first in-depth ethnographic study of...
View ArticleThe Mirror of Class: Class Subjectivity and Politics in 19th Century Bengal
The political, social and cultural understanding of the Bengali middle classes originating in the terrain of colonial capital was shaped through practices and ideas that came from the bourgeois world...
View ArticleThe town of Cochin and its Muslim heritage on the Malabar coast, South India
In South India Cochin is well known for its Jewish settlement, but the rich Muslim heritage of the town has so far remained almost unknown. A reason for this anonymity lies perhaps in that the Muslim...
View ArticleArchitecture and Urban Form in India's Silicon Valley: A Case Study of...
The research employed archival data, field documentation of ICT facility locations and architecture, and interviews with key actors in four case study areas of the city to explore these questions....
View Article“A World Class City of Your Own!”: Civic Governmentality in Chennai, India
This paper utilizes a critical governmentality approach to theorize the processes through which urban elites become stakeholders in the “world-class city”. Through a case study of public consultations...
View ArticleAn Early British Government Initiative in the Genesis of Indian Planning
While the idea of planning emerged as central to Indian nationalist economic thought only after the election of 1937, economic planning was a known concept to Indian thinkers in early twentieth...
View ArticleEmic understandings of Kumbh Mela pilgrimage experiences
This study interrogates pilgrims’ motivations, activities and experiences of the 2013 Kumbh Mela pilgrimage, in Allahabad, India. It adopts an interpretive paradigm by so doing it responds to Eade’s...
View ArticleRegional Planning for Bombay
Bombay is the third city in India to have undertaken some form of metropolitan planning on a regional scale, earlier instances being those of Delhi and Calcutta. It is the fifth, if one includes also...
View ArticlePlanting, Planning and Design: A comparative study of English colonial cities...
The object of this dissertation is to undertake a comparative study of the planning, founding and initial development in the latter half of the seventeenth century of five English colonial cities:...
View ArticleParticipation in mass gatherings can benefit well-being: longitudinal and...
How does participation in a long-duration mass gathering (such as a pilgrimage event) impact well-being? There are good reasons to believe such collective events pose risks to health. There are risks...
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