Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 234 Seiten)
,
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ISBN:
9781003017233
Serie:
Routledge studies in South Asian history
Inhalt:
Part I: The Banaras technoscape (and its discontents) -- A riot in Banaras -- Resorting to the language of stereotypes -- Filth, disgust, and governance -- Illness and hardship -- Creating the modern from the traditional -- Do you think the river is dirty? -- Administrative infrastructures -- Taxation and the transactional state -- To contemplate what was and what might have been -- Part II: The crafting of historical space -- Lord Curzon tours Jaunpur, James Fergusson in hand -- Ruination and un-ruination -- Files and archives -- Three mosques and a committee -- Not all tombs are created equal -- Act VII and the not-seeing of Banaras Information Classification: General -- A Sharqi mosque in Banaras -- A further note on whitewash -- The ruins of now.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780367818906
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dodson, Michael S., 1968 - Bureaucracy, belonging, and the city in North India London : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9781032400136
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780367818906
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Indien
;
Varanasi
;
Kolonialbürokratie
;
Stadtplanung
;
Geschichte 1870-1930
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