Going to the cinema
Princely urbanism in Hyderabad and Secunderabad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12275535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Yamini Krishna (0000-0003-4250-850X, Flame University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-60 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0963-9268 • E-ISSN: 1469-8706 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0963926822000578 |
| OpenAlex | W4300960892 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
The experience of the urban in nineteenth-century Hyderabad was interwoven with the experience of modern technologies like film. Cinema participated in constituting a modern public; practices of film viewing were practices of enacting the modern. Through a study of conflicts in the space of cinema, this article examines the politics of constituting and controlling the urban in the princely city of Hyderabad and the cantonment town of Secunderabad. It suggests that the princely modern adapted new technologies but was rooted in patrimonial traditions. The article also argues that the cantonment had a dependency relationship with the princely city, and urban space as constituted through cinema was the site of power negotiations between the princely ruler and the British
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Economic geography · Geography · Media studies · Movie theater · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public space · Ruler · Social science · Sociology · Urban space · Urbanism · Engineering · History · Law · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Architecture
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |