Book Description
This Collection Of Four Classic Books On Delhi Captures Its Essence And History Through The Ages. A Must Buy For Historians, Sociologists And Lay Reader Alike.
Author : Percival Spear
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
This Collection Of Four Classic Books On Delhi Captures Its Essence And History Through The Ages. A Must Buy For Historians, Sociologists And Lay Reader Alike.
Author : R. E. Frykenberg
Publisher :
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Delhi (India)
ISBN :
Author : Percival Spear
Publisher :
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Delhi (India)
ISBN : 9780195639230
Following in Dr Spear's footsteps, Narayani Gupta and Laura Sykes revisited the sites described by their predecessor, in this guide to Delhi. Their notes and annotations record how the city has changed dramatically over the last half century. Thirteen site maps, a chronological chart, glossary, and bibliography have been included to help a new generation of readers explore and rediscover this colourful city.
Author : Ranjana Sengupta
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9386057808
My understanding of this ferocious, restless, relentless metropolis is that each of us who lives in this city carries a unique, if virtual, Delhi inside our heads.' Independence, four million refugees from Pakistan and the overwhelming presence of visible and invisible power that flows from New Delhi being the capital have transformed it from the unruffled imperial town it once was to the fearsome metropolis it is today. And yet, says Ranjana Sengupta, this largely unloved city deserves to be loved. Delhi is home to the most diverse population of any city in the country. The unceasing influx of migrants has unleashed new urban architectures of opulence and deprivation. Different groups have set up their own, different universes, and these manage to coexist, not unhappily. And somewhere between the futurist Gurgaon skyline and the proliferating slums, alongside the march of the Metro and the refurbishment of Khan Market, lie Delhi's unsung sagas—the memories, the passions and the unspoken expectation that the city will change lives. Sengupta illustrates how Delhi is essentially the creation of refugees of all kinds, from those fleeing plundered homes within and across the border to the adventurers who have flocked to the city for the greater opportunities of employment or simply to be close to the hub of political power. The newer Delhi, she says, in its turn gained from the accumulated and diverse talent and capital it acquired from these people, although haphazard development poses a great danger to it. Delhi Metropolitan tracks the changes from the time 'going to CP' was almost the only leisure activity for the middle class, looks at the subtle reinventions of government colonies and the shining new suburbs, and inspects the footprints of 'Punjabification'. Have all these actually managed to colonize this extravagant, indefinable and unlikely city? In a work of immense detail, at once informed and entertaining, Ranjana Sengupta proffers an answer.
Author : Rana Dasgupta
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1443406066
Winner of the Ryszard Kapuściński Award and the Prix Émile Guimet de Littérature Asiatique Finalist for the Orwell Prize, the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger At the turn of the twenty-first century, acclaimed novelist Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi with a single suitcase. He had no intention of staying for long. But the city beguiled him—he “fell in love and in hate with it”—and fourteen years later, Delhi is still his home. Fourteen years of breakneck change. The boom following the opening up of India's economy plunged Delhi into a tumult of destruction and creation: slums and markets were ripped down, and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins. Many fortunes were made, and in the glassy stores lining the new highways, customers paid for global luxury with bags of cash. But the transformation was stern, abrupt and fantastically unequal, and it gave rise to strange and bewildering feelings. The city brimmed with ambition and rage. Bizarre crimes stole the headlines. In Capital, we see Delhi through the eyes of its people. With the lyricism and empathy of a novelist, Dasgupta takes us through a series of encounters—with billionaires and bureaucrats, drug dealers and metal traders, slum dwellers and psychoanalysts—which plunge us into Delhi's intoxicating, and sometimes terrifying, story of capitalist transformation. Interweaving over a century of history with his personal journey, he presents us with the first literary portrait of one of the twenty-first century's fastest-growing megalopolises—a dark and uncanny portrait that gives us insights, too, as to the nature of our own—everyone's—shared, global future.
Author : T.N. Madan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199088314
For more than half a century, T.N. Madan has been a towering influence on the sociological and anthropological studies of family and kinship, cultural dimensions of development, religion, secularism, and Hindu society and tradition. This Omnibus brings together his seminal writings on marriage, kinship, family, and the household in Hindu society. Family and Kinship: A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir, first published in 1965, remains a pioneering ethnographic study of the Kashmiri Pandits, and is considered a classic in the field of world anthropology. The book presents a social history of a people and culture which is currently virtually non-existent in the Kashmir Valley. Drawing upon new theoretical and methodological perspectives, Non-renunciation: Themes and Interpretations of Hindu Culture provides a nuanced understanding of Hinduism as a lived tradition. It explores aspects of auspiciousness, purity, asceticism, eroticism, altruism, and death while focussing on the householder's life in Hindu society. The Omnibus also includes additional essays on the Brahmanic gotra, and the Hindu family and development, along with a short piece on aspects of traditional household culture. It features an autobiographical essay—the author's recollection of growing up in a Pandit home in Srinagar, Kashmir. In the Prologue, T.N. Madan engages with the 'householder tradition' across the cultural regions of India, analysing themes of householdership and renunciation in religious philosophy and ethnography.
Author : Sanjoy Chakravorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108832245
Colossus unpacks the intricacies and inequalities of economic, social and political life in India's capital, Delhi.
Author : Arthur Dudney
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9384544310
We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time’ - Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot The megacity that is today’s Delhi is built upon thick layers of history. For a millennium, Delhi has been at the crossroads of trade, culture, and politics. The stories of its buildings and great historical personalities have been told many times, but this book approaches the past of India’s capital through its literary culture. By focusing on writers and thinkers, we meet a colourful cast of characters only glancingly mentioned in political histories. Many Delhiites are surprised to learn that the language of their city’s cultural heyday was Persian. Despite first being brought to India by invaders, it eventually became an authentically Indian language used in both administration and literature. Although it was cultivated by an elite, it was also a widely available language of aspiration and opportunity, like English today. It connected India to the wider world, and the Indian Subcontinent, particularly Delhi, was once a place where talented poets and scholars from the whole Persian cultural world – from Turkey to eastern China – came to make their fortunes. Its traces remain everywhere but Persian is effectively a dead language in India today.
Author : Ronald Vivian Smith
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9788180280207
This Is An Unconventional Introduction To The City Of Delhi. The Legends, Myths And Folklore Surrounding Its Monuments And Delightful Tales Give This Book Its Unique Appeal. A Foreword By Dr Narayani Gupta, The Book Is A Valuable Addition To The Literature On Delhi
Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1990-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0141949767
A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics