Prashant Kidambi
Biographic Data
| ID | 371896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prashant Kidambi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prashant |
| FAMILY NAME | Kidambi |
| SIGNATURE | KIDAMBI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rethinking Subalterns, Archives and Histories in the Present
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Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid
This article reframes a crucial period in the history of popular politics in colonial Bombay. Focusing on Hindu-Muslim antagonism between 1929 and 1939, it highlights the centrality of everyday urban spaces and places in shaping the context, dynamics and nature of communal conflict in a putatively cosmopolitan city. The first section shows how recurrent communal discord in Bombay was the outcome of two spatially contingent political developments …
Princely cities in South Asia, c . 1850–1950
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David Washbrook
Bombay Before Mumbai
The Petition as Event
The historiography on colonial petitioning has primarily construed it as an authorized ritual of supplication designed to affirm and reproduce established power relations. This article restores to the analysis of the petition its status as a potential 'event' that could exceed its documentary confines and generate new communities of action. Focusing specifically on colonial Bombay,circa1889-1914, it highlights three ways in which petitioning mark…
Mrinalini Rajagopalan. Building Histories
When and why are particular buildings transformed into monuments? What discursive modalities structure this monumentality? And why do some monuments generate affective meanings that exceed the regimes of truth within which they are sought to be contained? This critically engaged book, Building Histories, sets out to address these questions through an exploration of five monuments in modern Delhi. Architectural monuments, Mrinalini Rajagopalan arg…
David A. Johnson. New Delhi
Over the last decade or so, Delhi has been the focus of a growing body of historical research (most notably, Jyoti Hosagrahar, Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism [2005]; Stephen Legg, Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities [2007]; and Awadhendra Saran, In the City, Out of Place: Nuisance, Pollution, and Dwelling in Delhi, c .1850–2000 [2014]). David A. Johnson’s study differs significantly from this hist…
Partho Datta Planning the City
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Partho Datta Planning the City
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Nikhil Rao. House, but No Garden
A key question confronting those who wish to understand the modern Indian city is the apparent disjuncture between its colonial past and postcolonial present. Existing scholarship has tended to accentuate this divide. On the one hand, historians have mostly concentrated on the “colonial city” during the high noon of empire from the mid-nineteenth century to the onset of World War I. On the other hand, writings on the contemporary Indian city—most…
Sport and the Imperial Bond
This article explores the interplay of sport, politics and public diplomacy through a case study of the first ‘Indian’ cricket tour of Great Britain in 1911, an extraordinary venture peopled by an improbable cast of characters. Led by the young Maharaja Bhupindar Singh, the newly enthroned ruler of the princely state of Patiala, the team contained in its ranks cricketers who were drawn from different Indian regions and religious communities. The …
Mumbai Modern
Nationalism and the City in Colonial India
Studies of Indian nationalism have frequently acknowledged its “urban roots” but seldom considered in a systematic and sustained fashion the ways in which nationalism shaped the city. Focusing on colonial Bombay, c. 1890-1940, this article explores the changing relationship between Indian nationalism and the city. The first section examines the period spanning the late Victorian and Edwardian eras and highlights forms of middle-class political ac…
Subalterns and the Raj
Subalterns and the Raj: South Asia Since 1600 Crispin Bates London and New York, Routledge, 2007 xi+404 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-21484-1 (£19.99 paperback) In the last decade or so, there have been a n
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An infection of locality’
In September 1896, a virulent plague epidemic broke out in the colonial port city of Bombay. Central to existing interpretations of the epidemic has been the pervasive assumption that colonial policies aimed at suppressing the disease were principally informed by ‘contagionist’ etiological doctrine. However, this article argues that long-standing ‘localist’ etiological theories continued to exercise a critical influence over colonial policies. It…
Housing the Poor in a Colonial City
An infection of locality’
In September 1896, a virulent plague epidemic broke out in the colonial port city of Bombay. Central to existing interpretations of the epidemic has been the pervasive assumption that colonial policies aimed at suppressing the disease were principally informed by ‘contagionist’ etiological doctrine. However, this article argues that long-standing ‘localist’ etiological theories continued to exercise a critical influence over colonial policies. It…
The Petition as Event
The historiography on colonial petitioning has primarily construed it as an authorized ritual of supplication designed to affirm and reproduce established power relations. This article restores to the analysis of the petition its status as a potential 'event' that could exceed its documentary confines and generate new communities of action. Focusing specifically on colonial Bombay,circa1889-1914, it highlights three ways in which petitioning mark…
Subalterns and the Raj
Subalterns and the Raj: South Asia Since 1600 Crispin Bates London and New York, Routledge, 2007 xi+404 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-21484-1 (£19.99 paperback) In the last decade or so, there have been a n
Housing the Poor in a Colonial City
Nationalism and the City in Colonial India
Studies of Indian nationalism have frequently acknowledged its “urban roots” but seldom considered in a systematic and sustained fashion the ways in which nationalism shaped the city. Focusing on colonial Bombay, c. 1890-1940, this article explores the changing relationship between Indian nationalism and the city. The first section examines the period spanning the late Victorian and Edwardian eras and highlights forms of middle-class political ac…
Sport and the Imperial Bond
This article explores the interplay of sport, politics and public diplomacy through a case study of the first ‘Indian’ cricket tour of Great Britain in 1911, an extraordinary venture peopled by an improbable cast of characters. Led by the young Maharaja Bhupindar Singh, the newly enthroned ruler of the princely state of Patiala, the team contained in its ranks cricketers who were drawn from different Indian regions and religious communities. The …
Housing the Poor in a Colonial City
An infection of locality’
In September 1896, a virulent plague epidemic broke out in the colonial port city of Bombay. Central to existing interpretations of the epidemic has been the pervasive assumption that colonial policies aimed at suppressing the disease were principally informed by ‘contagionist’ etiological doctrine. However, this article argues that long-standing ‘localist’ etiological theories continued to exercise a critical influence over colonial policies. It…
Select Bibliography
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Subalterns and the Raj
Subalterns and the Raj: South Asia Since 1600 Crispin Bates London and New York, Routledge, 2007 xi+404 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-21484-1 (£19.99 paperback) In the last decade or so, there have been a n
Nationalism and the City in Colonial India
Studies of Indian nationalism have frequently acknowledged its “urban roots” but seldom considered in a systematic and sustained fashion the ways in which nationalism shaped the city. Focusing on colonial Bombay, c. 1890-1940, this article explores the changing relationship between Indian nationalism and the city. The first section examines the period spanning the late Victorian and Edwardian eras and highlights forms of middle-class political ac…
Sport and the Imperial Bond
This article explores the interplay of sport, politics and public diplomacy through a case study of the first ‘Indian’ cricket tour of Great Britain in 1911, an extraordinary venture peopled by an improbable cast of characters. Led by the young Maharaja Bhupindar Singh, the newly enthroned ruler of the princely state of Patiala, the team contained in its ranks cricketers who were drawn from different Indian regions and religious communities. The …
Mumbai Modern
Partho Datta Planning the City
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Partho Datta Planning the City
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Nikhil Rao. House, but No Garden
A key question confronting those who wish to understand the modern Indian city is the apparent disjuncture between its colonial past and postcolonial present. Existing scholarship has tended to accentuate this divide. On the one hand, historians have mostly concentrated on the “colonial city” during the high noon of empire from the mid-nineteenth century to the onset of World War I. On the other hand, writings on the contemporary Indian city—most…
David A. Johnson. New Delhi
Over the last decade or so, Delhi has been the focus of a growing body of historical research (most notably, Jyoti Hosagrahar, Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism [2005]; Stephen Legg, Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities [2007]; and Awadhendra Saran, In the City, Out of Place: Nuisance, Pollution, and Dwelling in Delhi, c .1850–2000 [2014]). David A. Johnson’s study differs significantly from this hist…
Mrinalini Rajagopalan. Building Histories
When and why are particular buildings transformed into monuments? What discursive modalities structure this monumentality? And why do some monuments generate affective meanings that exceed the regimes of truth within which they are sought to be contained? This critically engaged book, Building Histories, sets out to address these questions through an exploration of five monuments in modern Delhi. Architectural monuments, Mrinalini Rajagopalan arg…
Bombay Before Mumbai
The Petition as Event
The historiography on colonial petitioning has primarily construed it as an authorized ritual of supplication designed to affirm and reproduce established power relations. This article restores to the analysis of the petition its status as a potential 'event' that could exceed its documentary confines and generate new communities of action. Focusing specifically on colonial Bombay,circa1889-1914, it highlights three ways in which petitioning mark…
David Washbrook
Princely cities in South Asia, c . 1850–1950
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mill, Market, Mandir, Masjid
This article reframes a crucial period in the history of popular politics in colonial Bombay. Focusing on Hindu-Muslim antagonism between 1929 and 1939, it highlights the centrality of everyday urban spaces and places in shaping the context, dynamics and nature of communal conflict in a putatively cosmopolitan city. The first section shows how recurrent communal discord in Bombay was the outcome of two spatially contingent political developments …
Rethinking Subalterns, Archives and Histories in the Present
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