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History, Culture and the Indian City
Rajnayaran Chandavarkar
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Description for History, Culture and the Indian City
hardcover. A substantial collection of unpublished articles, lectures and papers from one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 282 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 600.
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 He died sadly young in 2006, leaving behind a very substantial collection of unpublished lectures, papers and articles.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 ... Read more
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 He died sadly young in 2006, leaving behind a very substantial collection of unpublished lectures, papers and articles.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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521768719
SKU
V9780521768719
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About Rajnayaran Chandavarkar
Raj Chandavarkar was one of the finest and most imaginative Indian historians of the twentieth century.
Reviews for History, Culture and the Indian City
'Overall, this is an important, provocative and highly impressive collection. it appears even more impressive when we consider that it consists almost entirely of unpublished, semi-published and unfinished papers left by Chandavarkar at the time of death.' The Journal of Urban History 'All the essays in the volume are alive with Chandavarkar's voice; his gentle intellectual power and soft revolutionary ... Read more