ISBN:
9789390252640
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (286 pages)
DDC:
307.760954
Keywords:
Neighborhoods-India
;
Neighborhoods-Religious aspects-India
;
Neighborhoods-Social aspects-India
;
Neighborhoods Congresses
;
Neighborhoods Congresses Social aspects
;
Neighborhoods Congresses Religious aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing Neighbourhood: Reading the Urban Backward and Forward -- Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak and Amiya Kumar Das -- Part I: Spatial Religiosity and the Making of Neighbourhoods -- 2 Sacred Anchors in Contemporary Neighbourhoods: The Case of Jain Religious Institutions in Ahmedabad -- Gauri Bharat -- 3 In Search of a Neighbourhood among the Kashivasis: An Ethnographic Account of an Ashram in Banaras -- Anakshi Pal -- 4 Gossip and Intra-Denominational Politics in a Christian Neighbourhood in Greater Kolkata: A Sociological Reflection -- Abhijit Dasgupta -- Part II: Dalit Neighbourhoods: Histories, Subjectivities and Contestation -- 5 Locating Dalit Bastis: The Sites of Everyday Silent Resistance and Works from the Late 19th-Century to the Mid-20th-Century United Provinces -- Vijay Kumar -- 6 Making of the 'New City': The Overlapping Structures of Caste and Class in Post-Partition Delhi -- Akanksha Kumar -- Part III: Engendering Neighbourhood: Female Neighbours and Contested Subjectivities -- 7 Living Like Friends and Neighbours: Everyday Narratives of the Neighbourhood -- Joyashree Sarma -- 8 Home-ing the World and World-ing the Home: An Understanding of Singlehood, Rental Housing and Neighbourliness -- Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana -- 9 Paros and Parosan: Spatial Affectivity and Gendered Neighbourhood in South Asia -- Sadan Jha -- Part IV: A House in a Neighbourhood: Planning, History and Aspirations of Housing -- 10 Government Officer Housing Precincts in Urban Lucknow: A Construction of Urban Exclusivity through Occupation-defined Neighbourhoods -- Sonal Mithal -- 11 Neighbourhoods in Space-Time: A Case of House Prices and Latent Aspirations -- Yugank Goyal and Harini Shah.
Abstract:
Papers presented at the Seminar 'Locating Neighbourhoods in the Global South' held on 25-26 September, 2019 organized by Department of Sociology, Tezpur Central University, Assam
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