Indigenous Modernities

Hosagrahar, Jyoti

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“…However, and by contrast with other European colonial cities in India (Abu-Lughod, 1980;Bethencourt & Adrian, 2012;Boxer, 1988;Chattopadhyay, 2005;Çelik, 1997;Mitter, 1986, p. 102;Glover, 2007;Hosagrahar, 2005;Rabinow, 1992, pp. 167-182;Wright, 1991), no racial segregation happened in Diu (Portuguese Overseas Historical Archives [AHU], 1612 ;Rivara, 1857Rivara, -1866.…”

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“…Hosagrahar thus, argues that Delhi's colonial urban forms were the result of local adaptations to Western ideals and were neither purely "Indian" nor purely "Western" creations. Instead, the products of colonial urban restructuring evinced "the elusive, contradictory, tentative, negotiated, and fluid" through material juxtapositions of older and newer, local and foreign elements (Chattopadhyay, 2005;Glover, 2007;Hosagrahar, 2005;Kidambi, 2007;Legg, 2007). Early 1980s works about the colonial city inaugurated this analysis on a broader geographical scope (Abu-Lughod, 1980;Çelik, 1997;Cohen & Eleb, 2002;Crinson, 2003;Fuller, 2007;Mclaren, 2006;Metcalf, 2002;Prochaska, 1990;Rabinow, 1980;Wright, 1991).…”

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Drawing the “color line”: Race, ethnicity and religion in Diu

Grancho

2022

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City

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This article explores how the ideas of race, ethnicity and religion shifted with modernity in Diu. While it concentrates on findings about Diu, the arguments it develops are more wide-ranging and have a series of architectural, urbanistic, and anthropological implications. It addresses the construction of identity by exploring the multiplicities and slippages of colonial imagery, social histories, and spatial production in the management of populations and colonial cities. We argue that the Portuguese shared ideologies rooted in race, ethnicity and religion that provide a consistent, detectable structure for a specific interpretation of spatial-morphological arrangements in Diu (the city's buildings, architecture, urban layout, and spatial structure) in the context of the European colonial city in South Asia. We analyze the discourse with which the Portuguese created knowledge through cartography, tracing how ideologies linked to race, ethnicity and religion were historically internalized, and how they worked in conjunction with social structures and practices to produce the colonial city of Diu.

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Drawing the “color line”: Race, ethnicity and religion in Diu

Grancho

2022

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City

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“…Hosagrahar has highlighted hybrid spaces and spatial practices in colonial Delhi articulating the concept of ''indigenous modernities'' although a more appropriate term would be ''indigenized modernities'' given that social and environmental changes in this period (1857-1947) were attributable to imported, not indigenous, concepts and mechanisms. 47 Changes in habits of perception and spatial behavior in response to new forms of domestic and urban spaces were facilitated by life in Company built housing (with few desirable options for living elsewhere), particularly among those from small towns and rural areas. Hybrid spaces created through modification of existing designed structures were not allowed.…”

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Jamshedpur

Sinha

Singh²

2011

Journal of Planning History

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The steel city of Jamshedpur originated in a small company town in the backwaters of eastern India as a new experiment in urbanism in 1907. The article critically examines its evolution to trace the influence of the most significant twentieth century town planning ideas—the garden city and the neighborhood unit—on the industrial township. A reevaluation of the planning reports of 1911, 1920, 1936, and 1944–45 reveals the reworking and adaptation of twentieth century modern urban planning and the limited success it achieved in India. The planning ideals included open green spaces of the garden city as an antidote to industrialization, urban infrastructure adapted to local site conditions, neighborhood units self-sufficient in civic amenities, and street hierarchy as a means of traffic segregation. Regionalization of global planning ideals as well as the tension between planned development and organic growth is evident in the narrative of Jamshedpur evolving from a company town to industrial city to the present day urban agglomeration

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“…Their presence in streets and bazaars, moreover, aroused concerns about obstructions to the circulation of traffic, drainage and sanitation works and thus left colonial authorities fearful about disease and disorder in the city. 16 In Delhi, the construction and use of chabutras (masonry or wooden platforms) intersected with the municipality's designs to reorganise the city into neat divisions of public and private spaces and often came under scrutiny as 'encroachments'. Not surprisingly, the regulation of these structures produced confrontations between the municipality and different sections of the population from time to time.…”

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Urban ‘Failures’: Municipal Governance, Planning and Power in Colonial Delhi, 1863–1910

Kishore

2015

The Indian Economic & Social History Review

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This article highlights the relationship between the ‘failures’ of municipal governance and the reproduction of its power in the colonial city. It examines the everyday operations of the Delhi Municipality between 1863 and 1910 and shows how the ‘failure’ to promote urban renewal actually provided ‘opportunities’ for the municipality’s own longevity. After the Rebellion of 1857, the Delhi Municipality was invested with a wide variety of powers to check sanitary offences and regulate building construction in Delhi. This article discusses how this very growth and centralisation of powers created severe challenges for the functions of the municipality. The growing complexity of its operations, recommendations of experts, costs of ambitious projects and resistance from city dwellers, it is suggested, constantly subverted municipal intentions. Yet, in bringing to light the ‘failure’ of municipal policies, this article will argue that failure was profoundly productive. Municipal ‘failure’ was always accompanied by the growth in its bureaucratic capabilities and regulatory powers.

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Indigenous Modernities

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Drawing the “color line”: Race, ethnicity and religion in Diu

Drawing the “color line”: Race, ethnicity and religion in Diu

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Urban ‘Failures’: Municipal Governance, Planning and Power in Colonial Delhi, 1863–1910

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