PAPER

Srinivas, Tulasi. “Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 29, no. 3 (2006): 321.

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

Ashley, Wayne. “The Stations of the Cross: Christ, Politics, and Processions on New York City’s Lower East Side.” In Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape, edited by Robert Orsi, 341-366. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Hall, Peter. “The City of Enterprise: Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-1987.” In Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century, 342-260. London: Basil Blackwell, 1988.

Harvey, David. “Capitalism: The Factory of Fragmentation.” In Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography, 121-127. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Harvey, David. “Cartographic Identitities: Geographical Knowledge Under Globalization.” In Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography, 208-236. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Heitzman, James. “Becoming Silicon Valley.” Seminar (New Delhi), July 2001. http://www.india-seminar.com/2001/503/503%20james%20heitzman.htm

Nair, Janaki. “Battles for Bangalore: Re-Territorialising the City” presented at the SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development). Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History, 2002.

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.

PAPER

Anand Vivek Taneja, Columbia University, “The Archaeology of Myth: The Myth of Archaeology: The Pasts and Present of the Purana Qila”

Anand Vivek Taneja, “History and Heritage Woven in the New Urban Fabric: The Changing Landscapes of Delhi’s ‘First City’, 1995-2005 (or, Who Can Tell the Histories of Lado Sarai?)”

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

Bayly, C.A. “Delhi and Other Cities of North India during the ‘Twilight’.” In The Delhi Omnibus, edited by R.E. Frykenberg, 121-136. New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2002.

Gupta, Narayani. “Delhi and Its Hinterland: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” In The Delhi Omnibus, edited by R.E. Frykenberg, 137-156. New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2002.

Khan, Naveeda. “Of Children and Jinn: An Inquiry into an Unexpected Friendship during Uncertain Times.” Research-article, May 18, 2006.

Kumar, Sunil. “A Medieval Reservoir and Modern Urban Planning: Local Society and the Hauz-i-Rani” and “Making Sacred History or Everyone his/her own Historian: The Pasts of the Village of Saidlajab.” In The Present in Delhi’s Pasts, 62-118. New Delhi: Three Essays Press, 2002.

Messick, Brinkley. Selections from The Calligraphic State. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

PAPER

Nikhil Rao, “An Indian Suburbia”, chapter 1 from dissertation in the Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms.

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

Archer, John. “Colonial Suburbs in South Asia, 1750-1850, and the Spaces of Modernity.” In Visions of Suburbia, edited by Roger Silverstone, 26-54. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

King, Anthony D. “Excavating the Multicultural Suburb: Hidden Histories of the Bungalow.” In Visions of Suburbia, edited by Roger Silverstone, 55-85. New York: Routledge, 1997.

PAPERS

Nikhil Rao, “The City as Subject: The Acquisitions of the Bombay Improvement Trust” (chapter 1) from dissertation in the Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms

Ashish Rajadhyaksha, “The Contrasting Case of Bombay” (unfinished) chapter from forthcoming book Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: Indian Evidence 2005-1925 (New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2007).

Paper

Svati Shah, “Sex Work and Secrecy” (ch.4) and “The Red Light Area: Producing the Spectacle of Sex Work” (ch.5) from Seeing Sexual Commerce: Sex, Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai, dissertation submitted to the Columbia University Department of Anthropology, 2005.

Primary Texts

David Harvey, “Introduction” and “On Bodies and Political Persons in Global Space” (ch.6 “The Body as Accumulation Strategy” and ch.7 “Body Politics and the Struggle for a Living Wage”) from Spaces of Hope, Berkeley: Univesity of California Press, 2000, pp.97-132

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, “Workers’ Politics and the Mill Districts in Bombay Between the Wars” from Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950, pp.100-142

Kamala Kempadoo, “Introduction: Globalizing Sex Workers’ Rights” in Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema, eds., Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition, New York: Routledge, 1998, pp.1-28.

Jeremy Seabrook, selections from In the Cities of the South: Scenes from a Developing World (ch.1 “Myths of the Megacities”, ch.2 “Urbanization: The Making of a Transnational Working Class”, ch.3 “Migrants to the City”, ch.4 “Bombay in the Nineties”, ch.6 “Labour in the Cities”, and ch.10 “Slums and Settlements”), London: Verso, 1996, pp.1-73, 86-130, 174-209)

Supplementary Texts

Kalpana Sharma, Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.

Mike Davis, Planet of Slums, London: Verso Books, 2005.

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.

Paper

Nikhil Rao, “The Bourgeois Street in Bombay”, draft chapter of dissertation in the Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms

Primary Texts

Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City and Appendices to The Image of the City (1960). Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Of Garbage, Modernity and the Citizen’s Gaze” in Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp.65-79.

Sudipta Kaviraj, “Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta”, Public Culture vol.10, no.1 (1997) pp.83-113.

Supplementary Texts

Michel de Certeau, “Spatial Practices” and “Walking in the City” in The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, pp.91-130.

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), New York: Modern Library, 1993.

Deyan Sudjic, The 100 Mile City. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1992.

Paper
Nikhil Rao, “House, But No Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay in the 1930s” and “Caste, Community and the Cooperative Society: The Emergence of Dadar-Matunga as Ethnic Neighbourhood in Bombay”, draft chapters from dissertation in the Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms

Primary Texts

Robert E. Park, “The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment” (1915) in Robert Park, Ernest Burgess and Roderick D. McKenzie, eds., The City, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967, pp.1-46 (chapter 1).

Ernest W. Burgess, “The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project” in Robert Park, Ernest Burgess and Roderick D. McKenzie, eds., The City, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967, pp.47-62 (chapter 2).

Roderick D. McKenzie, “The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community” in Robert Park, Ernest Burgess and Roderick D. McKenzie, eds., The City, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967, pp.63-79 (chapter 3).

Supplementary Texts

Paul G. Cressey, “The Taxi-Dance Hall as a Social World” (1932) in James F. Short, Jr., ed. The Social Fabric of the Metropolis: Contributions of the Chicago School of Urban Sociology, Chicago: Univesity of Chicago Press, 1971, pp.193-209.William Foot Whyte, “Social Structure, The Gang and the Individual” (1943) in James F. Short, Jr., ed. The Social Fabric of the Metropolis: Contributions of the Chicago School of Urban Sociology, Chicago: Univesity of Chicago Press, 1971, pp.214-235.

Ulf Hannerz, “Chicago Ethnographers” in Exploring the City: Inquiries Towards an Urban Anthropology, New York: Columbia University Press, 1980, pp.19-48 (chapter 2).

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.