The City in South Asia

First published in 1980, The City in South Asia is a collection of papers which were presented at an inter-disciplinary seminar on The City in South Asia: pre-modern and modern.

Kenneth Ballhatchet and John Harrison

List of Illustrations Contributors Preface 1. Colonialism and the Development of the Modern Asian City: Some Theoretical Considerations 2. The Small Town and Islamic Gentry in North India: The Case of Kara 3. Delhi: Interrupted Growth 4. Murshidabad in the Eighteenth-Century 5. The City of Lucknow before 1856 6. Urban Problems and Government Policies: A Case Study of the City of Dacca, 1810-1830 7. Allahabad: A Sanitary History 8. The City of Dacca 1921-1947: Society, Water and Electricity 9. Life in the Mufassal Towns of Nineteenth-Century Bengal 10. The Local Organizational Basis of Social Relationships Among Hindus in Calcutta in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century 11. The Muslims of Lucknow - 1919-1939 12. An Urban Minority: The Goan Christian Community in Karachi 13. City, Town and Village: The Continuum Reconsidered