Title Streets in motion : the making of infrastructure, property, and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta / Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Metamorphoses of the political : multidisciplinary approaches Contents Introduction -- The Making of the Modern Street: -- Engineers, Commoners, Agitators -- The Regime of the Streets: Renewal and Riots, 1910-1926 -- City as Territory: Institutionalizing Majoritarianism -- Frontier Urbanization -- Durable Obstructions, Spatializing Motion: The History of Footpath -- Hawking in Calcutta -- Epilogue Summary "Investigating sites in colonial and postcolonial Calcutta, this book considers the wider politics and consequences of the modalities that both produce and regulate the street. It situates political economy as belonging not just to the domain of the government, the law, the planner's apparatus but parallelly to the domain of public action on the street. It studies, primarily, city-making by popular passions and public action on the streets. The book looks at the streets in motion through the eyes of the colonial and postcolonial city planners and of squatters who obstruct the movement of pedestrians and traffic. It qualifies the dialectic between the planner and the crowd by factoring in the aspect of city-planning being shaped by crowd action. The planner reorganizes demography through the building of thoroughfares while crowds shape planning by different varieties of occupation-occupation as community (authoritarian: Hindu aggregation of space through communal riots) and occupation as class (democratic: counter-pedestrianism of the street vendors). It thus presents an understanding of the social production of motion"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2022) Subject City planning -- India -- Kolkata Streets -- India -- Kolkata Pedestrian traffic flow -- India -- Kolkata Squatters -- India -- Kolkata POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy. City planning Pedestrian traffic flow Social conditions Squatters Streets SUBJECT Kolkata (India) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject India -- Kolkata Form Electronic book LC no. 2022020714 ISBN 9781009109208 1009109200

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