ISBN:
9780192588449
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Series Statement:
Oxford Historical Monographs
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.320954560904
Keywords:
Delhi (India)-History-20th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Delhi as an urban space was re-made in the late-colonial period, not purely because of the new architecture, but also because of crucial social transformations. Possessing the City poses the question: who owned property, and what did they do with it, with answers rooted in the South Asian state, housing, finance, and religious conflict.
Abstract:
Cover -- Possessing the City: Property and Politics in Delhi, 1911-1947 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Property, Economic History, and the City -- Power, the State, and Urban Space -- Protest, Mobilizations, and Social Conflict in the City -- Plan of the Work -- Conclusion -- 1: Background: Property in Delhi, 1857-1911 -- The Reveille and the Ledger -- Simplifying Property -- Delhi's Economy -- Conclusion -- 2: A Malleable Cityscape -- Demographics and Construction -- Real Estate, Manufacturing, and Finance -- The Suburbs and the City Centre -- The Intramural House and Street -- Suburban Development -- Conclusion -- 3: Landlords, Tenants, and Real Estate Firms -- Housing the Poor -- The Intermediate Classes -- Women and Property -- Crisis and Recovery, 1920-40 -- Finance and the Property Market -- Housing Cooperatives -- A Real Estate Segment? -- Coercion, Corruption, and Power -- Conclusions -- 4: Representing Commodified Space: Maps, Auctions, Leases, and 'Narration' of Property -- Introduction -- Maps -- Temporalities -- Abstraction -- Truth -- Leases -- Auctions -- Advertisements -- 'Narrating' Property -- 5: Intimacy in Four Registers: State, Space, and Capital in Delhi -- The Fragmented State -- Ingestion: Internalising the Market -- Attraction: Property Development by the State -- Symbiosis: House, Neighbourhood, and the State -- Nightmare: Property Development Beyond the State -- Conclusion -- 6: Lineages of the Housing Question -- The Imperial City -- Expectations -- Scales -- Political Struggles within the State -- Health and Sanitation -- The Congress and the Housing Question -- Caste and the Housing Question -- Rent Control -- The Housing Question Resolved? -- 7: Grave Investments: Property, Abstraction and Sacral Spaces -- The Experience of Abstraction.
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