Colonial Lahore : A History of the City and Beyond
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 34710676
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190642938.001.0001
- Publisher
- Hurst
- ISBN
- 9781849046534
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 267pp (c.85,000 words) monograph on colonial Lahore’s global connections offers an in-depth study that draws on a large body of sources in both Urdu and English. The complexity and pioneering character of the study involved close textual analysis of unstudied printed and primary sources. These included official documents, and private papers, including those from the Royal Archives at Windsor, along with published memoirs as well as more unconventional sources such as newspaper advertisements, tourist guidebooks, newsreels, and photographs. The material was consulted over a 4-year period in archives and libraries in Pakistan, and India, as well as the UK.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The work transforms understandings of Lahore’s past by revealing that the city in the colonial era was at the centre of a web of communications linking it culturally, socially and politically not only with the great cities of India- Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay, but also to Afghanistan, Arabia, Europe and North America. These interactions are explored with respect to pilgrimage, militancy, consumption and material culture, poetry, wrestling, and cricket. The tourist gaze is also explored for the first time in terms of travellers and texts. Lahore’s diversity and complexity called for the use of a wide range of source materials in both Urdu and English. They included official documents, and memoirs, as well as more unconventional sources such as newspaper advertisements, tourist guidebooks, newsreels, and photographs. The research project was launched at a workshop on Colonial Lahore at the University of Southampton in April 2012 and took four years before being completed.
Professor Talbot was responsible for around 80 per cent of the research and writing of the volume (c.64,500 of 85,000 words). He solely authored chapters 1,3, 5, and 7 and contributed to chapters 4 and 6. He also wrote the introduction and epilogue for the volume. Archival material was drawn from the Home Political Department, National Archives of India. In the UK, he worked extensively on private papers at the Centre for South Asian Studies Archive at the University of Cambridge; Official India Office Records held at the British Library; Company Records at the Thomas Cook archive at Peterborough. He also consulted the Kipling Papers at the University of Sussex and the Max Lock Papers at the University of Westminster. Material relating to the Duchess of Connaught’s visits to the Mayo School of Arts in Lahore was consulted at the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle.
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- Non-English
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