Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India

By:

Dalmia, Vasudha

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ranikhet Permanent Black 2017Description: 428pISBN:

9788178244877

Subject(s):

Humanities and Social Science

DDC classification:

891.43309 DAL

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Item type	Current library	Item location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	NIMA Knowledge Centre	5th Floor Reading Zone	General	891.43309 DAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		L0011377

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The North’s historical cities, rooted in an Indo-Persianate culture, began changing more slowly than the Presidency towns founded by the British. Focusing on six major cities – Agra, Allahabad, Banaras, Delhi, Lahore, and Lucknow – Dalmia takes up eight canonical Hindi novels set in them to trace a literary history of domestic and political cataclysms. Her exploration of emerging Hindu middle classes, changing personal and professional ambitions, and new notions of married life provides a vivid sense of urban modernity.

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