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  • Eric Lewis Beverley

    I am Assistant Professor of History at SUNY-Stony Brook in Long Island, New York, where I teach courses on modern and early Modern South Asia and other related topics. My areas of research interest include colonialism and the postcolonial, urban studies, the Muslim world, transnational history, Urdu and Persian literature, and the Indian Ocean world. My current book project, Fragmenting Sovereignty: Hyderabad, British India, and the World, examines political thought, crime and judicial administration and urban governance in a semi-autonomous Muslim-ruled state in South Asia during the high colonial period. During 2009-10, I am Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and will be researching and writing here and in India.

    Department Home Page

    http://history.sunysb.edu/blog/ericbeverley/

    Urban South Asia Posts by Eric Lewis Beverley

    Planning Princely Hyderabad

    Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

    PAPER

    Eric Lewis Beverley, “Improvising Urbanism: Aesthetics and Sanitation in the Making of Modern Hyderabad”, draft chapter from dissertation in the Department of Indo-Islamic Cultures, Harvard University, 2006ms.

    SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

    Brush, John E. “The Morphology of Indian Cities.” In India’s Urban Future: Selected Studies from an International Conference sponsored by Kingsley Davis, Richard L. Park, and Catherine Bauer Wurster, edited by Roy Turner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.

    Celik, Zeynep. “The Regularization of the Urban Fabric.” In The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

    Ellefsen, Richard A. “City-Hinterland Relationships in India.” In India’s Urban Future: Selected Studies from an International Conference sponsored by Kingsley Davis, Richard L. Park, and Catherine Bauer Wurster, edited by Roy Turner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.

    Harrison, Mark. “The Foundations of Public Health in India: Crisis and Constraint.” In Public Health in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

    Paul Rabinow. “Techno-Cosmpolitanism: Governing Morocco.” In French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1989.

    Radha Kamal Mukherjee and J.M. Linton Bogle. “Town Planning in India.” Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1929.

    Wang, Di. “Street Control.” In Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners and Local Politics, 1870-1930. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

    Hyderabad from Charminar to Cantontment

    Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

    Paper

    Eric Lewis Beverley. “Cosmopolitanism from Charminar to Cantontment: Urban Hyderabad and Colonialism”, draft chapter from dissertation in the Department of Indo-Islamic Cultures, Harvard University, 2006ms.

    Primary Texts

    David Harvey. “Paris, 1850-1870″ and “Monument and Myth: The Building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart” in Consciousness and The Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanisation, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp.63-249 (reprinted in David Harvey, “Part II: Materializations: Paris 1848-1870″ and “Part III: Coda” in Harvey, Paris: Capital of Modernity, New York: Routledge, 2003).

    Supplementary Texts

    Marshall Berman. “Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets” in All that is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York: Verso Books, 1983, pp.131-172.

    Alan Corbin. The Foul & the Fragrant: Odor and the French Imagination. 1986.

    Michael Sprinker. History & Ideology in Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu and the Third French Republic, 1988.