The City in South Asia Pre-Modern and Modern

First published in 1980, The City in South Asia is a collection of papers which were presented at an inter-disciplinary seminar on The City in South Asia: pre-modern and modern, held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, under the auspices of the Centre of South Asian Studies. Some of the papers in this volume are comparative; others are concerned with specific cities – Allahabad, Dacca, Delhi, Karachi, Lucknow and Murshidabad. They deal with three main themes: the city and the state, the city and society, the city and the surrounding country. The book is appropriately embellished with maps and contemporary illustrations, and will be of interest to students of history, ethnic studies, and South Asian studies.

List of Illustrations Contributors Preface 1. Colonialism and the Development of the Modern Asian City: Some Theoretical Considerations A. D. King 2. The Small Town and Islamic Gentry in North India: The Case of Kara C. A. Bayly 3. Delhi: Interrupted Growth Percival Spear 4. Murshidabad in the Eighteenth-Century K. M. Mohsin 5. The City of Lucknow before 1856 Rose Llewellyn-Jones 6. Urban Problems and Government Policies: A Case Study of the City of Dacca, 1810-1830 S. U. Ahmed 7. Allahabad: A Sanitary History J. B. Harrison 8. The City of Dacca 1921-1947: Society, Water and Electricity Nazia Hussain 9. Life in the Mufassal Towns of Nineteenth-Century Bengal M. S. Islam 10. The Local Organizational Basis of Social Relationships Among Hindus in Calcutta in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century John McGuire 11. The Muslims of Lucknow – 1919-1939 Sarojini Ganju 12. An Urban Minority: The Goan Christian Community in Karachi Raffat Khan Haward 13. City, Town and Village: The Continuum Reconsidered Christine Cottam

Kenneth Ballhatchet and John Harrison