A colonial city and its time(s)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8960895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ranajit Guha (Independent Scholar, Vienna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-351 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001946460804500301 |
| OpenAlex | W2006851084 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 2 |
Kaliprasanna Sinha's Hutom Pyanchar Naksha (1861) is justly famous for its racy and vibrant depiction of life in nineteenth-century Calcutta. Ostensibly modelled on the Sketches by Boz of Charles Dickens, a marvellously realistic portrayal of the seamier side of everyday life in London, Hutom's sketches, however, do not describe the everyday life of the colonial capital of British India. Instead, it presents a gallery of effervescent portrayals of festivals—of people in masks, dressed up to enjoy themselves. For the colonised population of the city, a large part of everyday time has been surrendered to the drudgery of ‘the office’; only the time of the festival is its own. Even in citing its provenance, Hutom parodies Boz
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Capital (architecture · Capital city · Colonialism · Depiction · Economic geography · Everyday life · Geography · Political science · Population · Sociology · Visual arts · Demography · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture
The afterlife of pre-capitalist spacetime and the urbanisation of Indian consciousness
Singing in a New World
Global Dickens
Cricket geographies
Urbanity in the Vernacular
The Literary Lumpen
The Modern, the Untimely, and the Planetary
The contested city
Urban theory with an outside
Remembering (to forget) English
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |