The Making of the Indian Landscape (Set of 2 volumes)

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Author : Aditi Chatterji

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The book is the outcome of over twenty years of research at Oxford and Kolkata, and encompasses a historical, social and cultural study of the development of the urban landscape of India from the era of the Indus Civilisation to contemporary postcolonial times. It tends to focus particularly on colonial and postcolonial urban development in India and consists of eighteen chapters, including an analysis of urbanisation down the ages, the multifaceted concepts of urban space in Indian cities, whether sacred, public, commercial or practical and the socio-economic and socio-cultural dimensions of postmodernism, globalisation, expanding urbanisation, town planning, conservation, heritage, race, class, ethnicity, poverty, gender, public health, the natural and built environment and other related aspects of urban India and also studies the evolution of the natural and rural landscape of the country.

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Weight 6.200 kg
Dimensions 26 × 16 × 6.8 cm
Type

Hardbound

Language

English

Country of Origin

India

Year of publication

2014

Publisher

Aryan Books International

Delivery Time

3-4 days

About the author

Aditi Chatterji was born in Kolkata, India and educated at Loreto House School, Loreto College, St. Hilda?s College, University of Oxford and the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. She has an M.Litt. in Geography from Oxford and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Calcutta and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London. She was awarded the Henrietta Hutton Award of the Royal Geographical Society in 1987. She has to her credit several research papers and articles. Her publications include The Changing Landscapes of the Indian Hill Stations?Power, Culture and Tradition (Prabasi, Calcutta, 1997), based on her Oxford research; Contested Landscapes?The Story of Darjeeling (INTACH, Kolkata, 2007); and Ethnicity, Migration and the Urban Landscape of Kolkata (K.P. Bagchi, 2009 with ICSSR support). From 2004 to 2006, she was appointed a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi and worked on ?Ethnicity, Migration and the Urban Landscape of Kolkata?; she was a Senior Academic Fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), New Delhi from 2010 to 2012 and worked on ?Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Development in West Bengal? and was appointed a Senior Fellow of the ICSSR for a second time in 2013 to carry out further research on ?Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora?. Her research papers have been presented at numerous national and international conferences and seminars, including those of the Royal Geographical Society (1997, 2007), and the Association of American Geographers (2009), as well as the National University of Singapore (1995). She went back to Oxford as a Visiting Fellow at St. Cross College in 2011, with the support of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). She has been based at the Centre for Urban Economic Studies, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta since 1997, where she is still an Honorary Associate.

Content

Foreword vii Introductory Note ix Acknowledgements xiii Messages xv List of Illustrations xix Vol. I Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction and Theoretical Basis 1 Part II: The Indian Landscape: An Overview 2. The Evolution of the Natural Landscape 26 3. Rural and Urban Landscapes and Urbanisation in India 77 4. Ancient and Medieval Urban Development in India 99 5. Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Development in India 146 6. Town Planning in India 199 Part III: The Indian Landscape: Historical Perspectives 7. Sacred Space and the Urban Landscape 231 8. Public Space: The Victoria Memorial as Symbolic Landscape 264 9. Conceptions of Markets in Colonial and Postcolonial India 281 10. Sinews of Empire: Rivers, Railways and Roadways 295 11. Representation, Empire and Nationalism: Perceptions of Indian Landscape 318 Vol. II Part IV: The Indian Landscape: Socio-economic and Cultural Perspectives 12. The Environment, Sustainable Development and Indian Settlements 339 13. Non-Governmental Organisations, Women and Childhood Spaces 368 14. Conservation, Heritage and the Indian Landscape 389 15. Adjusting to the Alien ?Other?: Ethnicity, Migration and Landscape in India 411 16. Globalisation, Liberalisation and Postmodern Landscapes in India 446 17. The Expanding City 462 Part V: Conclusions 18. Conclusions 499 Appendices 525 Figures 601 Plates 637 Select Bibliography 639 Index 669

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