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List of illustrations vii
Notes on contributors viii
Acknowledgements xi
Space, place and globalisation: revisiting the urban neighbourhood in India Henrike Donner Geert De Neve 1
Economic liberalisation, class restructuring and social space in provincial south India Geert De Neve 21
'Establishing territory': the spatial bases and practices of the DPI Hugo Gorringe 44
Local governance: politics and neighbourhood activism in Calcutta Indranil Chakrabarti 68
Temples and charity: the neighbourhood styles of the Komati and Beeri Chettiar merchants of Madras City Mattison Mines 89
Parhai ka mahaul? An educational environment in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh Roger Jeffery Patricia Jeffery Craig Jeffrey 116
The politics of gender, class and community in a central Calcutta neighbourhood Henrike Donner 141
Anonymous encounters: class categorisation and social distancing in public places Kathinka Froystad 159
Conformity and contestation: social heterogeneity in south Indian settlements Penny Vera-Sanso 182
The rituals of rehabilitation: rebuilding an urban neighbourhood after the Gujarat earthquake of 2001 Edward Simpson 206
Index 232
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Michael Giammatteo
reviewed The Meaning of the Local: Politics of Place in Urban India on December 05, 2012
The Meaning of the Local
A massive, indeed exhaustive, look at the Mughal empire--administration, military organisation, food, sexual mores, religious structure, class structure. It's massive, and obviously some parts are really not for the general reader (or not this one anyway). Along with his book The Mughal Throne I feel like I have a lot more sense of what/when/how the Mughal empire was, which is a start to a shamefully neglected part of my education. Highly informative and colourful, if not light reading.
Author feels very strongly that the empire was administratively speaking basically a disgrace and shambles after Akbar, and makes a case for this whose merits I am in no way equipped to judge, but it's fascinating to read. The empire was just too big, and the Mughals (except Akbar) too focused on their own enrichment--emperor after emperor presiding over a system of squeezing the poor till the pips squeaked, and effectively discouraging investment in the country's future by people at all levels in favour of personal enrichment by whatever means.
Also, Aurangzeb is still a dick.
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