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Paras, Palaces, Pathogens: frameworks for the growth of Calcutta, 1800–1850
Author(s) -
Archer John
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.2000.12.1.19
Subject(s) - indigenous , colonialism , negotiation , face (sociological concept) , population , hygiene , geography , ethnology , history , political science , sociology , demography , social science , ecology , biology , archaeology , medicine , pathology
THE HISTORICAL FABRIC OF CALCUTTA incorporates both the perspective of indigenous knowledges and practices, as well as successive regimes of “improvements” that British colonial authorities sought to introduce in the period 1798‐1850. In the face of these diverse interests the urban fabric served as a crurial medium for the negotiation of difference. Portions of the indigenous population selectively adapted their budding designs and social practices to British conventions, while protecting other patterns and practices in efforts both to accommodate and to maintain difference. [Colonial cities, urban planning, hygiene, India, Calcutta]