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The National Capital Region of Delhi is a diverse and unequal space. Its more than 30 million people are sharply differentiated by economic class, religion and caste, education, language, and migration status. Its 45,000 square kilometres is a tapestry of spaces - ghettoes, slums, enclaves, institutional areas, planned and unplanned and authorized and unauthorized colonies, forests and agricultural fields. In some ways it is a dynamic society aspiring to global city grandeur; in other ways it is a bastion of tradition, sectarianism and hierarchy. Colossus details these realities and paradoxes under three themes: social change, community and state, and inequality. From the material condition of the metropolis - its housing, services, crime and pollution - to its social organization - of who marries whom, who eats with whom, and who votes for whom - this book unpacks the complex reality of a metropolitan region that is emblematic of India's aspirations and contradictions.

Delhi (India) --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Economic conditions. --- Dehli (India) --- Dilli (India) --- Delhi --- Shahjahanabad (India) --- Dihlī (India) --- Political science. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The

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In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand Vivek Taneja's Jinnealogy provides a fresh vision of religion, identity, and sacrality that runs counter to state-sanctioned history. The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja observes the visitors, who come mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. He finds that their veneration of the jinns recalls pre-modern religious traditions in which spiritual experience was inextricably tied to ecological surroundings. In this enchanted space, Taneja encounters a form of popular Islam that is not a relic of bygone days, but a vibrant form of resistance to state repression and post-colonial visions of India.

Jinn --- Islam --- Muslim saints --- Islamic antiquities --- Antiquities, Islamic --- Antiquities, Muslim --- Muslim antiquities --- Antiquities --- Islamic saints --- Saints, Muslim --- Sufi saints --- Saints --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Djin --- Djinn --- Djinni --- Djinns --- Djins --- Genies --- Genii --- Jinni --- Jinns --- Demonology --- Spirits (Islam) --- Genius (Companion spirit) --- Relations --- Hinduism. --- Delhi (India) --- Dehli (India) --- Dilli (India) --- Delhi --- Shahjahanabad (India) --- Dihlī (India) --- Religious life and customs. --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Relations&delete& --- Hinduism --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Azië

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This book explores ambivalence in the domestic building activities of a group of East India Company officials in Delhi in the fifty years following British occupation in 1803. Arguing that houses, their location and their contents directly or subliminally reveal the values and beliefs of the individuals who commissioned and lived in them, it uses houses to examine the changing ways the British manipulated power, both relating to and resisting the pre-existing spatial layout of the city. The re-use of palaces and of monumental religious structures as dwellings, as well as new houses that appeared formally classical but concealed adaptations to local ways of living, show that despite an apparent desire to maintain cultural separation, there was both complexity and contradiction in the interrelationship of the British authority and the failing Mughal polity. The book also shows how room sequencing and function demonstrate a lack of rigid distinction between the official and individual roles played by Company officials. Household objects have multiple meanings depending on their use and context. As the taste and choices made in these houses were primarily those of men, the book also contributes to our understanding of competing models of manhood in British India. SYLVIA SHORTO is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Architecture, Domestic --- British --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- History --- East India Company --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- Employees --- Dwellings --- Architecture, British --- British influences. --- Domiciles --- Homes --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Residential buildings --- Single-family homes --- Buildings --- House-raising parties --- Household ecology --- Housing --- British architecture --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Architecture --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī --- Delhi (India) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Dehli (India) --- Dilli (India) --- Delhi --- Shahjahanabad (India) --- Dihlī (India) --- Architecture in Colonial Context. --- Architecture. --- British Houses. --- British India. --- British Influence. --- British Rule. --- Colonial Context. --- Colonial Period. --- Domestic Buildings. --- Historical Context. --- Late Mughal Delhi. --- Material Culture. --- Relationship. --- Rulers and Ruled. --- Sylvia Shorto.