TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalmia, Vasudha 
TI  - Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India 
SN  - 9788178244877
U1  - 891.43309 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Ranikhet
PB  - Permanent Black
KW  - Humanities and Social Science
N1  - 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
ER  -