Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India
Dalmia, Vasudha
Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India - Ranikhet Permanent Black 2017 - 428p
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.
9788178244877
Humanities and Social Science
891.43309 / DAL
Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India - Ranikhet Permanent Black 2017 - 428p
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.
9788178244877
Humanities and Social Science
891.43309 / DAL