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Cricket, public culture and the making of Postcolonial Calcutta
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ISBN: 9781108781190 9781108494588 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"Indian cricket mobilised a large and diverse popular following in the twentieth century. What was so special about cricket and why was it so important to a large number of people? In this book, the author tells the story of this banal humanity that historians tend to forget. Why do postcolonial Indians identify with the colonial game the way they do? Is the engagement with English culture a mechanism for empowering and modernising themselves? What does cricket tell us about the making of a public culture? Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta uncovers the various modes through which the Indian public have been moulded as followers of cricket and examines the emergence of a postcolonial society through its lens. Through thematic explorations of cricket's significance for the people of Calcutta, the book discusses the making of public culture in a postcolonial city. The six chapters survey long-term social, cultural and political processes through which cricket became an accessory to emerging identities and ideologies. By closely examining these processes the author analyses the discourses of postcolonialism, collective history and space-making in an urban context. The followers and critics of cricket in Calcutta are the protagonists in this book. A study of their entanglement offers two important insights into the making of postcolonial society. First, it enables us to understand how people attach symbolic values to cultural forms to reimagine and reinvent themselves. Second, it enhances the analytical value of cricket as a cultural tool that empowered, modernised and gave new meanings to its community"--

La cité de la joie.
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ISBN: 2221044223 9782221044223 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris Laffont

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Sociology of the developing countries --- Calcutta --- Refugees --- -Altruism --- Conduct of life --- Calcutta (India) --- -Calcutta (India) --- -Description and travel --- Social conditions --- #gsdb10 --- Altruism --- -#GGSB: Literatuur (letterkunde) --- 840-3 LAPIERRE, DOMINIQUE --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Ethics, Practical --- Morals --- Personal conduct --- Ethics --- Philosophical counseling --- Altruistic behavior --- Unselfishness --- Charity --- Helping behavior --- #GGSB: Literatuur (letterkunde) --- Kolkata (India) --- Kalikātā (India) --- Sealdah (India) --- Kalkutta (India) --- Caligardamana (India) --- Calcuta (India) --- Kalkuta (India) --- Kälkätä (India) --- Горад Калькута (India) --- Horad Kalʹkuta (India) --- Калькута (India) --- Колката (India) --- Καλκούτα (India) --- Kalkouta (India) --- Kolkato (India) --- 콜카타 (India) --- Калькуттæ (India) --- Kalʹkuttæ (India) --- קולקטה (India) --- Ḳolḳaṭah (India) --- Калькутта (India) --- コルカタ (India) --- Korukata (India) --- Колкате (India) --- Kolkate (India) --- Kolkat (India) --- קאלקאטא (India) --- 加尔各答 (India) --- Jia'ergeda (India) --- Description and travel. --- Social conditions. --- Altruism. --- Literatuur (letterkunde) --- Refugees - - Calcutta - India --- Calcutta (India) - - Description and travel --- Calcutta (India) - - Social conditions --- -Refugees --- -Sociology of the developing countries


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Christmas in Calcutta
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ISBN: 8132118812 9788132118817 9788132113485 8132113489 1306824184 Year: 2014 Publisher: New Delhi, India

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Anglo-Indians --- Christians --- Religious adherents --- Eurasians --- Ethnic identity. --- Social conditions. --- Community life --- Education --- Ethnic identity --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- Kolkata (India) --- Ethnic relations --- Religious life and customs --- Ethnic relations. --- Religious life and customs. --- Kalikātā (India) --- Sealdah (India) --- Kalkutta (India) --- Caligardamana (India) --- Calcuta (India) --- Kalkuta (India) --- Kälkätä (India) --- Горад Калькута (India) --- Horad Kalʹkuta (India) --- Калькута (India) --- Колката (India) --- Καλκούτα (India) --- Kalkouta (India) --- Kolkato (India) --- 콜카타 (India) --- Калькуттæ (India) --- Kalʹkuttæ (India) --- קולקטה (India) --- Ḳolḳaṭah (India) --- Калькутта (India) --- コルカタ (India) --- Korukata (India) --- Колкате (India) --- Kolkate (India) --- Kolkat (India) --- קאלקאטא (India) --- 加尔各答 (India) --- Jia'ergeda (India) --- Calcutta (India) --- Anglo-Indians - India - Kolkata - Ethnic identity --- Anglo-Indians - India - Kolkata - Social conditions --- Anglo-Indians - India - Kolkata - Biography --- Christians - India - Kolkata - Biography --- Community life - India - Kolkata --- Education - Social aspects - India - Kolkata --- Kolkata (India) - Social conditions --- Kolkata (India) - Ethnic relations --- Kolkata (India) - Biography --- Kolkata (India) - Religious life and customs


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Calcutta mosaic : essays and interviews on the minority communities of Calcutta
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ISBN: 1283378752 9786613378750 1843318059 8190583557 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Delhi : Anthem Press,

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‘Calcutta Mosiac’ explores the history of the diverse immigrant communities of this great city.

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Minorities --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Calcutta (India) --- Calcutta Corporation (India) --- Calcutta Municipal Corporation (India) --- Corporation of Calcutta (India) --- Kalikātā (India) --- Kalkatʻay (India) --- Kalkatʻa (India) --- Kalakattā (India) --- Kalkatah (India) --- Kalakātā Purasabhā (India) --- Municipal Corporation of Calcutta (India) --- Kolkata (India) --- Population. --- Popular culture --- India --- History --- Social life and customs. --- Minorities. --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Sealdah (India) --- Kalkutta (India) --- Caligardamana (India) --- Calcuta (India) --- Kalkuta (India) --- Kälkätä (India) --- Горад Калькута (India) --- Horad Kalʹkuta (India) --- Калькута (India) --- Колката (India) --- Καλκούτα (India) --- Kalkouta (India) --- Kolkato (India) --- 콜카타 (India) --- Калькуттæ (India) --- Kalʹkuttæ (India) --- קולקטה (India) --- Ḳolḳaṭah (India) --- Калькутта (India) --- コルカタ (India) --- Korukata (India) --- Колкате (India) --- Kolkate (India) --- Kolkat (India) --- קאלקאטא (India) --- 加尔各答 (India) --- Jia'ergeda (India)


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A hygienic city-nation : space, community, and everyday life in colonial Calcutta
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ISBN: 1108883427 1108779654 1108489893 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Calcutta, the centre of British imperial power in India, figures in scholarship as the locus of colonialism and the hotbed of anti-colonial nationalist movements. Yet, historians have largely ignored how the city shaped these movements. A Hygienic City-Nation is the first academic work that examines everyday urban formations in the colonial city that informed the broad global forces of imperialism, nationalism, and urbanism, and were, in turn, shaped by them. Drawing on previously unexplored archives of the Calcutta Improvement Trust and neighbourhood clubs, the author uncovers hidden stories of the city at the everyday level of neighbourhoods or paras, where kinship-like ties, caste, religion, and ethnicity constituted new urban modernity. Ghosh focuses on an emergent discourse on Hindu spatial hygiene that powered nationalist pedagogic efforts to train city dwellers in conduct fit for the city-nation. In such pedagogic efforts, upper-caste Bengalis were pitted against the lower-caste working poor and featured as ideal inhabitants of the city: the citizen.


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Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata
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ISBN: 9048530687 9789048530687 9789462981119 9462981116 Year: 2017 Publisher: Amsterdam

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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.

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Urban renewal --- Cities and towns --- Architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Urban policy --- Design and construction --- Kolkata (India) --- Kalikātā (India) --- Sealdah (India) --- Kalkutta (India) --- Caligardamana (India) --- Calcuta (India) --- Kalkuta (India) --- Kälkätä (India) --- Горад Калькута (India) --- Horad Kalʹkuta (India) --- Калькута (India) --- Колката (India) --- Καλκούτα (India) --- Kalkouta (India) --- Kolkato (India) --- 콜카타 (India) --- Калькуттæ (India) --- Kalʹkuttæ (India) --- קולקטה (India) --- Ḳolḳaṭah (India) --- Калькутта (India) --- コルカタ (India) --- Korukata (India) --- Колкате (India) --- Kolkate (India) --- Kolkat (India) --- קאלקאטא (India) --- 加尔各答 (India) --- Jia'ergeda (India) --- Calcutta (India) --- Civilization. --- History. --- Urban renewal. --- Cities and towns. --- Architecture. --- HISTORY --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- India & South Asia. --- India --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Indii︠a︡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- インド --- هند --- Индия --- Kolkata, urbanism, architecture, urban planning, history. --- Architecture, Primitive

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