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Author : Makrand Mehta
Publisher : Academic Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9788171880171
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Indian Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Historical Perspective written by Makrand Mehta and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth L. Gillion
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ahmedabad; a Study in Indian Urban History written by Kenneth L. Gillion and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rajnayaran Chandavarkar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139480448
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book History, Culture and the Indian City written by Rajnayaran Chandavarkar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raj Chandavarkar was one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century. He died sadly young in 2006, leaving behind a very substantial collection of unpublished lectures, papers and articles. These have now been assembled and edited by Jennifer Davis, Gordon Johnson and David Washbrook, and their appearance will be widely welcomed by large numbers of scholars of Indian history, politics and society. The essays centre around three major themes: the city of Bombay, Indian politics and society, and Indian historiography. Each manifests Dr Chandavarkar's hallmark historical powers of imaginative empirical richness, analytic acuity and expository elegance, and the collection as a whole will make both a major contribution to the historiography of modern India, and a worthy memorial to a major scholar.
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351137174
Total Pages : 2610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Urban History written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 2610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in this set, originally published between 1940 and 1994, draw together research by leading academics in the area of welfare and the welfare state, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes examine welfare policy, equality, poverty, class, government, social policy, unemployment, and social services, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of welfare and the welfare state in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students of sociology, health, and political studies respectively.
Author : Tommaso Bobbio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317514009
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India written by Tommaso Bobbio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanisation is rapidly changing the geographic and social landscape of India, and indeed Asia as a whole. Issues of collective violence, urban poverty and discrimination become crucial factors in the redefinition of citizenship not only in legal terms, but also in a cultural and socio-economic dimension. While Indian cities are becoming the centres of a culture of exclusion against vulnerable social groups, a long-term perspective is essential to understand the patterns that shaped the space, politics, economy and culture of contemporary metropolises. This book takes a critical, longer-term view of India’s economic transition. The idea that urban growth goes hand in hand with the modernisation of the country does not account for the fact that increasingly higher portions of the urban population are comprised of lower-income groups, casual labourers and slum dwellers. Using the case study of Ahmedabad, this book investigates the history of city and of its people over the twentieth century. It analyses the contrasting relationship between urban authorities and the inhabitants of Ahmedabad and examines instances of antagonism and negotiation – amongst people, groups and between the people and the public authority – that have continuously shaped, transformed and redefined life in the city. This book offers an important tool for understanding the bigger context of the conflicts, the social and cultural issues that accompanied the broader process of urbanisation in contemporary India. It will be of interest to scholars of Urban History, studies of collective violence and South Asian Studies.
Author : Pratyush Shankar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9391050344
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Urban Form of India written by Pratyush Shankar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is undergoing massive urbanization. The future form of Indian cities in terms of urban planning and design is most urgent. A study of the key historical moments from the point of view of urban development is thus important. With case studies from the time cities originated in the Indian subcontinent and hand-drawn illustrations of these cities till the ones in recent times, the author discusses the last two hundred years of urban development in India with emphasis on the overall structure of the city, its nature of public places, institutions, and housing.
Author : Stanley A. Kochanek
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520319125
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Business and Politics in India written by Stanley A. Kochanek and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author : Darshini Mahadevia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000971090
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Urban Planning and its Discontents written by Darshini Mahadevia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice. Urban planning in India means many things to city residents and is used generically to include all interventions in the cities, such as public policy design, institutional design, spatial and territorial plans, infrastructure plans, public administration, community participation, and their implementation through programmes, schemes, and projects. While urban planning is expected to meet the global development agendas of equitable and just urbanisation, climate change and sustainable development goals (SDGs), in practice it has largely remained confined to statutory spatial planning represented by ‘Master Plan’ or ‘Comprehensive Plan’. This volume delves into this world of urban planning as critical insiders to see how it works in India, analysing the city level spatial plans, the Master or Development Plans, of select cities to assess whether these are capable of addressing the global agendas and coordinate with all other plans prepared for the city. It examines whether it would work in reference to the contemporary issues, SDGs, and global agendas, and discusses strategies on how to make it work better. It also deals with each of the above stated criticisms of the practice and examines the debates, data, approaches, agendas, plans, and the future of urban planning in India. This book comes in at a time when the urban planners and policy makers have themselves begun to discuss a need to relook at urban planning practices and tools to meet the future requirements of urbanisation in India. It will be a useful reference volume for the students, scholars and practitioners alike, and be of interest to researchers and students of urban planning, architecture, public administration, civil engineering, geography, economics, and sociology. It will also be useful for policy makers and professionals working in the areas of town and country planning.
Author : Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521596923
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Imperial Power and Popular Politics written by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr Chandavarkar rejects the 'Orientalist' view of Indian social and economic development as exceptional and somehow distinct from that prevailing in capitalist societies elsewhere, and reasserts the critical role of the working classes in shaping the pattern of Indian capitalist development. Sustained in argument and elegant in exposition, these essays represent a major contribution not only to the history of the Indian working classes, but to the history of industrial capitalism and colonialism as a whole. Imperial Power and Popular Politics will be essential reading for all scholars and students of recent political, economic, and social history, social theory, and cultural and colonial studies.--Publisher description.
Author : Gary Bridge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444395122
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The New Blackwell Companion to The City written by Gary Bridge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities
Author : James Heitzman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134289626
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The City in South Asia written by James Heitzman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000 years. With a strong emphasis on the production of space and periodic excursions into literature, art and architecture, religion and public culture, this interdisciplinary study is a valuable text for students and scholars interested in comparative history, urban studies, and the social sciences.
Author : Janine Wilhelm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317238869
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Environment and Pollution in Colonial India written by Janine Wilhelm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is facing a river pollution crisis today. The origins of this crisis are commonly traced back to post-Independence economic development and urbanisation. This book, in contrast, shows that some important early roots of India’s river pollution problem, and in particular the pollution of the Ganges, lie with British colonial policies on wastewater disposal during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Analysing the two cornerstones of colonial river pollution history during the late 19th and early 20th centuries – the introduction of sewerage systems and the introduction of biological sewage treatment technologies in cities along the Ganges – the author examines different controversies around the proposed and actual discharge of untreated/treated sewage into the Ganges, which involved officials on different administrative levels as well as the Indian public. The analysis shows that the colonial state essentially ignored the problematic aspects of sewage disposal into rivers, which were clearly evident from European experience. Guided by colonial ideology and fiscal policy, colonial officials supported the introduction of the cheapest available sewerage technologies, which were technologies causing extensive pollution. Thus, policies on sewage disposal into the Ganges and other Indian rivers took on a definite shape around the turn of the 20th century, and acquired certain enduring features that were to exert great negative influence on the future development of river pollution in India. A well-researched study on colonial river pollution history, this book presents an innovative contribution to South Asian environmental history. It is of interest to scholars working on colonial, South Asian and environmental history, and the colonial history of public health, science and technology.
Author : Judith Owens
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773536515
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book City Limits written by Judith Owens and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of new approaches are used to look at the early modern European city.
Author : Noah Hysler-Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317796489
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Patrick Geddes and Town Planning written by Noah Hysler-Rubin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. This book studies the various, and even opposing ways, in which Geddes has been interpreted up to this day, providing a new reading of his life, writing and plans. Geddes' scrutiny is presented as a case study for Town Planning as a whole. Tying together for the first time key concepts in cultural geography and colonial urbanism, the book proposes a more vigorous historiography, exposing hidden narratives and past agendas still dominating the disciplinary discourse. Written by a cultural geographer and a town planner, this book offers a rounded, full-length analysis of Geddes' vision and its material manifestation, functioning also as a much needed critical tool to evaluate Modern Town Planning as an academic and practical discipline. The book also includes a long overdue model of his urban theory.
Author : Gerald Adler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134811535
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Riverine written by Gerald Adler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world’s largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements – given life through the space of the local waterscape – soon developed into ritualised spaces that sought to harness the dynamism of the watercourse and create the local architectural landscape. Theorised via a sophisticated understanding of history, space, culture, and ecology, this collection of wonderful and deliberately wide-ranging case studies, from Early Modern Italy to the contemporary Bengal Delta, investigates the culture of human interaction with rivers and the nature of urban topography. Riverine explores the ways in which architecture and urban planning have imbued cultural landscapes with ritual and structural meaning.
Author : Mridula Ramanna
Publisher : Primus Books
ISBN 13 : 9380607245
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Health Care in Bombay Presidency, 1896-1930 written by Mridula Ramanna and published by Primus Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of aspects of public health in Bombay Presidency from 1896 to 1930, and is asked upon extensive primary data. It charts both the changes in the colonial plague policy, from the deadly epidemic of 1896 to the frequent epidemics that appeared in the 1900s, as well as the changes in Indian responses to that policy in different regions of the Presidency. Through a survey of unique local initiatives by activist health officials, civic leaders, and Indian doctors, efforts to bring sanitary consciousness into the public sphere, to promote preventive measures, and to tackle public health challenges like tuberculosis become apparent. The twentieth century witnessed an increasing acceptance of the idea of hospitalization and thus gave rise to the expansion of hospital facilities. This work therefore elucidates these developments through an analysis of both the funding of these expanding institutions and the classification system of admissions, as well as by providing a detailed review of maternity and mission hospitals. With these issues in mind, this work examines a range of perceptions including those of British and Indian physicians regarding the causes of high maternal and infant mortality and their suggestions to tackle it, as well as semi-official and non-official efforts to promote maternal and infant welfare. Specifically, issues such as the health of female mill workers, and the training of nurses, dais, and midwives is addressed. There was a close link between the attempts to improve the health of women and the growing number of female Indian doctors. Some of the career paths of these doctors, including their activities in the All India Women's Conference, the Association of Medical Women in India, and the National Planning Committee, are traced in this work. Through such analyses, the relative place of Western and Indian medicine in the Presidency can also be explored to reveal the manifold and complex dimensions of this encounter. This study will contribute to an understanding of the all India public health scenario of the pre-independence years, and will be of interest to scholars of history, sociology, community health, gender studies, and South Asian studies, as well as to health workers and NGOs.
Author : T. K. Oommen
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131715468
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Reconciliation in Post-Godhra Gujarat written by T. K. Oommen and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
