Gaurav C Garg
Biographic Data
| ID | 323711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaurav C Garg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaurav C |
| FAMILY NAME | Garg |
| SIGNATURE | GARG G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ashoka University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2283-9205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The world’s worst city’: The making of hyperreal Calcutta and the global urban crisis
This article is about how Calcutta’s image as the world’s foremost crisis city was constructed from the mid-1950s, and how it came to be used by a broad political spectrum—from the American left and right to, allegedly, Fidel Castro—for rationalizing a variety of positions on urban development. This hyperreal Calcutta was the product of a global conjuncture which centred on Western, mainly American, anxieties about how large cities of the Global …
Sugata Bose. Asia After Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century
(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and Capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay
Between Global History and Microhistory: Rethinking Histories of 'Small Spaces' and Cities
How can historians of 'small spaces' and cities focus on local events and issues and at the same time carry on conversations with peers in a disciplinary mode marked by the spatial expansiveness of global history, on one hand, and a focus on objects and individuals of microhistory on the other? At stake here are key questions connected with the intellectual value of place-based knowledge and detailed single-site historical case studies. I argue t…
Ford Foundation–India Relations in the 1950s: A Recipient Country Perspective
This paper investigates the development of a close relationship between the Ford Foundation—the world’s richest and most internationally oriented philanthropic organisation in the Cold War era—and India in the 1950s. Unlike existing literature on private foundation–recipient country relationships, which overwhelmingly focusses on the donor perspective, this essay explores the recipient perspective, thereby contributing to the emerging literature …
Between Global History and Microhistory: Rethinking Histories of 'Small Spaces' and Cities
How can historians of 'small spaces' and cities focus on local events and issues and at the same time carry on conversations with peers in a disciplinary mode marked by the spatial expansiveness of global history, on one hand, and a focus on objects and individuals of microhistory on the other? At stake here are key questions connected with the intellectual value of place-based knowledge and detailed single-site historical case studies. I argue t…
Ford Foundation–India Relations in the 1950s: A Recipient Country Perspective
This paper investigates the development of a close relationship between the Ford Foundation—the world’s richest and most internationally oriented philanthropic organisation in the Cold War era—and India in the 1950s. Unlike existing literature on private foundation–recipient country relationships, which overwhelmingly focusses on the donor perspective, this essay explores the recipient perspective, thereby contributing to the emerging literature …
Ford Foundation–India Relations in the 1950s: A Recipient Country Perspective
This paper investigates the development of a close relationship between the Ford Foundation—the world’s richest and most internationally oriented philanthropic organisation in the Cold War era—and India in the 1950s. Unlike existing literature on private foundation–recipient country relationships, which overwhelmingly focusses on the donor perspective, this essay explores the recipient perspective, thereby contributing to the emerging literature …
Between Global History and Microhistory: Rethinking Histories of 'Small Spaces' and Cities
How can historians of 'small spaces' and cities focus on local events and issues and at the same time carry on conversations with peers in a disciplinary mode marked by the spatial expansiveness of global history, on one hand, and a focus on objects and individuals of microhistory on the other? At stake here are key questions connected with the intellectual value of place-based knowledge and detailed single-site historical case studies. I argue t…
The world’s worst city’: The making of hyperreal Calcutta and the global urban crisis
This article is about how Calcutta’s image as the world’s foremost crisis city was constructed from the mid-1950s, and how it came to be used by a broad political spectrum—from the American left and right to, allegedly, Fidel Castro—for rationalizing a variety of positions on urban development. This hyperreal Calcutta was the product of a global conjuncture which centred on Western, mainly American, anxieties about how large cities of the Global …
Sugata Bose. Asia After Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century
(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and Capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay
Narrative (2 works) · Order (exchange (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Australian History and Society (1 works) · Capitalism (1 works) · Cold war (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works)