Archive for the 'Reading Group' Category
Bangalore’s Twentieth Century
Our last session this semester will be on WEDNESDAY 28 MAY 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. when we will discuss:
Primary Text
Janaki Nair, The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2005).
Supplementary Texts
Janaki Nair, Beladide Noda Bengaluru Nagara!, Photo Exhibition on “Worlding the City : The Futures of Bangalore”, 2000
Representing Calcutta
Our next session will be on WEDNESDAY 14 MAY 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. when we will discuss the work of historian Swati Chattopadhyay.
Primary Text
Chattopadhyay, Swati. Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny. Routledge, 2006.
Supplementary Texts
Sudipta Kaviraj, “Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta”, Public Culture vol.10, no.1 (1997) pp.83-113.
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.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Adda: A History of Sociality” in Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp.180-213.
Delhi’s Urban Govermentalities
Our next session will be on WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. when we will discuss the work of geographer Stephen Legg on New Delhi.
Primary Text
Stephen Leggg. Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
Supplementary Texts
Stephen P. Blake, Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India 1639-1739, New Ed (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Stephen Legg, “Beyond the European Province: Foucault and Postcolonialism,” in Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography, ed. Jeremy W. Crampton and Stuart Elden (Ashgate Publishing, 2007).
Stephen Legg, “Ambivalent Improvements: Biography, Biopolitics, and Colonial Delhi,” Environment and Planning A 40, no. 1 (2008): 37-56.
Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in Bombay
Our next session will be on WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. when we will discuss the work of historian Sandip Hazareesingh.
Primary Text
Hazareesingh, Sandip. The Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity : Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in Bombay City 1900-1925. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007.
Supplementary Texts
Chopra, Preeti. “Refiguring the Colonial City: Recovering the Role of Local Inhabitants in the Construction of Colonial Bombay, 1854-1918.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 14 (2007): 109-125.
Hazareesingh, Sandip. “Colonial Modernism and the Flawed Paradigms of Urban Renewal: Uneven Development in Bombay, 1900–25.” Urban History 28, no. 02 (2001): 235-255.
Hazareesingh, Sandip. “The Quest for Urban Citizenship: Civic Rights, Public Opinion, and Colonial Resistance in Early Twentieth-Century Bombay.” Modern Asian Studies 34, no. 4 (October 2000): 797-829.
Making Lahore Modern
Our next session will be on WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
Primary Text
Glover, William J. Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Supplementary Texts
Glover, William J. “Objects, Models, and Exemplary Works: Educating Sentiment in Colonial India.” The Journal of Asian Studies 64, no. 03 (2007): 539-566.
Glover, William J. “Construing Urban Space as “Public” in Colonial India: Some Notes from the Punjab.” The Journal of Punjab Studies 15, no. 1 (forthcoming 2008): 1-14.
Plotz, John. “One-Way Traffic: George Lamming and the Portable Empire.” In After the Imperial Turn: Thinking With and Through the Nation, edited by Antoinette Burton, 308-23. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
The Making of an Indian Metropolis
Our group reconvenes after a hiatus of almost a year on TUESDAY 19 FEBRUARY at 6.30 p.m. at MIT E51-195 . Please join us for dinner and conversation on the work of urban historian Prashant Kidambi.
Primary Text
Kidambi, Prashant. The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1860-1920. Ashgate, 2007.
Supplementary Texts
Kidambi, Prashant. “‘An Infection of Locality’: Plague, Pythogenesis and the Poor in Bombay, 1896–1905.” Urban History 31, no. 02 (2005): 249-267.
Kidambi, Prashant. “Housing the Poor in a Colonial City: The Bombay Improvement Trust, 1898-1918.” Studies in History 17, no. 1 (February 1, 2001): 57-79.
Spring 2008 Sessions
This is the list of our public meetings and primary texts for the group in Spring 2008. Our meetings are from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. in the MIT Program in Science Technology & Society (STS) in Building E51, Room 195.
Tuesday 19 February 2008
Kidambi, Prashant. The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1860-1920. Ashgate, 2007.
Wednesday 12 March 2008
Glover, William J. Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Wednesday 2 April 2008
Hazareesingh, Sandip. The Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity : Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in Bombay City 1900-1925. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007.
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Legg, Stephen. Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
Wednesday 14 May 2008
Chattopadhyay, Swati. Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny. Routledge, 2006.
Wednesday 28 May 2008
Nair, Janaki. The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Remembering Raj Chandavarkar
MAIN TEXTS
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, “From Neighbourhood to Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Left in Bombay’s Girangaon in the 20th Century”, introductory essay from Meena Menon and Neera Adarkar, One Hundred Years, One Hundred Voices: The Mill Workers of Girangaon: An Oral History (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2004).
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
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, “Police and Public Order in Bombay, 1880-1947″ from Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950, pp.180-233
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, “Plague Panic and Epidemic Politics in India, 1896-1914″ from Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950, pp.234-265
Douglas Haynes and Subho Basu, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajnarayan_Chandavarkar
Patrick Geddes in India
Main Texts
Patrick Geddes, Selection from “Cities in Evolution” from Marshall Stalley, ed., Patrick Geddes: Spokesman for Man and the Environment, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1972.
Patrick Geddes, “Committee on Collaboration between the Bombay University and Bombay City” (Maharashtra State Archives, Educational Department, 1920)
Patrick Geddes, “Essential of Sociology in Relation to Economics”, Indian Journal of Economics, vol. III, part 1, 1919 (?)
Hellen Meller, “Urbanisation and the Introduction of Modern Town Planning Ideas in India, 1900-1925″
Ramachandra Guha, “Patrick Geddes and Ecological Town Planning in India”, talk given to the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), September 2006
Indian Town Planning Reports by Patrick Geddes
(with sincere thanks to Arindam Datta for sharing his collection of these reports with the group)
Geddes, Reports on Re-Planning of Six Towns in Bombay Presidency, 1915. Bombay: Government of Maharashtra Urban Development and Public Health Dept, 1965.
Geddes, Town Planning in Lucknow: A Report to the Municipal Council. Lucknow: Murray’s London Printing Press, 1916.
Geddes, Report on Town Planning, Dacca. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Depot, 1917.
Geddes (with H.V. Lanchester), Town Planning in Jubbulpore: A Report to the Municipal Committee. Jubbulpore: Hitkarini Press, 1917.
Geddes, Town Planning towards City Development: A Report to the Durbar of Indore. Indore: Holkar State Printing Press, 1918.
The Urban Revolution
Primary Text
Henri Lefebrve, The Urban Revolution (1969). Robert Bononno, trans. London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Supplementary Texts Henri Lefebvre, “Plan of the Present Work” in The Production of Space (1974), Donald Nicholson-Smith, trans., Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, pp.1-67.
Edward W. Soja, “The Extraordinary Voyages of Henri Lefebvre” (chapter 1) and “The Trialectics of Spatiality” (chapter 2) in Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-And-Imagined Places, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996, pp.26-82.