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Beyond the colonial city: re-evaluating the urban history of India, ca. 1920-1970 / Haynes, Douglas E; Rao, Nikhil

Haynes, Douglas E	Journal Article
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2013.

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It was long customary to begin essays on the historiography of cities in South Asia by mentioning the low level of scholarly interest once given to the study of urban pasts; 2 but a major corpus of work on this subject certainly now exists. In our view, the most important shortcomings of the existing body of scholarship now lie less in their neglect of historical urbanism than in the relative inattention given to a particular phase of urban history: the middle decades of the twentieth century. The historiography of South Asian cities has concentrated highly on what might be called 'the long nineteenth century', 3 a phase lasting from the establishment of British rule (which varied according to the region being discussed) to some point during the early twentieth century. Many of the richest works in the field confine themselves completely to nineteenth-century developments 4 or begin sometime during the late nineteenth century, edge into the initial decades of the twentieth century, and then end at some point in the 1920s or 1930s.

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Ethnic Identities ; South Asia ; India ; Urban History ; Colonial City

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Community, urban citizenship and housing in Bombay, ca. 1919–1980 / Rao, Nikhil

Rao, Nikhil	Journal Article
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2013.

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From the late 1910s onward, co-operative housing societies in cities like Bombay offered affordable housing by using the agency of community to protect against the vicissitudes of the market. At the same time, ideas of urban citizenship premised on the liberal individual received greater attention with a broadened franchise and became increasingly linked to social rights such as affordable housing. While the community and the individual are seen as opposed to one another in the discourse of citizenship, this paper suggests that they mutually informed and constituted one another between 1919 and 1980 in ways that have enduring significance for understandings of urban citizenship.

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Community ; Bombay ; Housing ; Franchise ; Urban Citizenship ; Co - Operative Societies ;
Municipal Elections

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