Claiming the City : Protest, Crime and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta, c.1860-1920
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 51330120
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0199464791
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This project was conducted over ten years, supported by a two-year British Academy Research Development Award. The monograph is c.100,000 words (c.4000 words appeared in Ghosh’s article, 'Singing in a new World' in History Workshop Journal 76 (2013), submitted to REF2014). It offers the first history of urbanisation in South Asia from below, using an innovative range of multilingual sources: street songs, gossip, photographs, local histories, crime fiction and memoirs. Shifting the focus from urban planning and official archives to popular culture, the book sees Calcutta's subaltern residents as not passive consumers but active interlocutors of colonial India’s modernising process.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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