Paper

Sarah Waheed, “Bombay and the Adeeb: Exploring Spaces of Sociability amongst Urdu Intellectuals, 1899-1965″, draft chapter of dissertation in the Department of History, Tufts University (2006)

Primary Texts

Ismat Chugtai, “From Bombay to Bhopal”

Sadat Hasan Manto, “Ismat Chugtai”

Walter Benjamin, “Berlin Chronicle” in Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, Peter Demetz, ed., Edmund Jephcott, trans., New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, pp. 3-60.

Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Adda: A History of Sociality” in Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp.180-213.

Supplementary Texts

Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life”

David Frisby, Cityscapes of Modernity, London: Polity Press, 2002, ch.1 (The Flaneur in Social Theory), ch. 3 (Georg Simmel’s Metropolis), ch. 4 (Vienna is not Berlin), ch. 5 (Otto Wagner & Vienna), ch. 6 (Social Theory, the Metropolis and Expressionism).

Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, Thomas Levin, ed., trans., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.