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100			_aDalmia, Vasudha _914522
245			_aFiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India
260			_aRanikhet _bPermanent Black _c2017
300			_a428p
500			_aThe 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.
600			_aHumanities and Social Science _99370
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999			_c107599 _d107599