Nightlife in the City of Nawabs

Abstract

The nightlife provides a place where people from different backgrounds or co-ethnic communities can interact or even be around with different people to build a sense of satisfaction to allow people to spend quality time with their friends and relatives. The concept of nightlife recreation is not new in Indian society; however, the pattern of usability of nightlife culture is transforming with respect to the current situation where the majority of the activities are influenced by the Western world. In this study, the authors discussed the current status of nightlife on the heritage street of Hazratganj, which had gone through a complete makeover in the year 2010 on the occasion of completing 200 years of its establishment. And in extension to that, the authors tried to find public opinion through a survey questionnaire to understand the gaps causing restrictions to accept the nightlife culture.

Nightlife Studies

“…Alternative epistemological approaches that look beyond the interplay between the criminalistic/regulatory perspective and the neoliberal economicist perspective-touched upon in the first part of this article-proved fruitful in areas such as southeastern European countries, Muslim countries, India and Indonesia (e.g. Olt et al 2019;Khubchandani 2020;Khorsand, Khayredin and Alalhesabi 2021;Salman et al 2021). This parallels the acceleration of works offering new historical approaches to the emergence and development of nightlife in the late industrial world, especially in western contexts (e.g.…”