Research Catalog

Title

Colonial Lahore : a history of the city and beyond / Ian Talbot, Tahir Kamran.

Author

Talbot, Ian

Publication

• Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Kamran, Tahir

Description

xiv, 267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

A number of studies of colonial Lahore in recent years have explored such themes as the city's modernity, its cosmopolitanism and the rise of communalism which culminated in the bloodletting of 1947. This first synoptic history moves away from the prism of the Great Divide of 1947 to examine the cultural and social connections which linked colonial Lahore with North India and beyond. In contrast to portrayals of Lahore as inward looking and a world unto itself, the authors argue that imperial globalisation intensified long established exchanges of goods, people and ideas. Ian Talbot and Tahir Kamran's book is reflective of concerns arising from the global history of Empire and the new urban history of South Asia. These are addressed thematically rather than through a conventional chronological narrative, as the book uncovers previously neglected areas of Lahore's history, including the links between Lahore's and Bombay's early film industries and the impact on the 'tourist gaze' of the consumption of both text and visual representation of India in newsreels and photographs.

Subjects

• Lahore (Pakistan) > History
• History
• Pakistan > Lahore

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.

Contents

Preface and acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Chronology of buildings and developments in Colonial Lahore -- Introduction -- Colonial Lahore: the city and beyond -- Darvarzas and Mohallas: place and space in Colonial Lahore -- Travellers, tourists and texts -- Poets, wrestlers and cricketers: patronage and performance in Lahore and beyond -- A world of goods: consumption of foreign goods in late Colonial Lahore -- Pilgrims and shrines in the Colonial Age -- Martyrs, migrants and militants: Lahore's transnational revolutionary networks -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFD 20-888

ISBN

• 9780190642938
• 0190642939

LCCN

2017288492

OCLC

950450526

Author

Talbot, Ian, author.

Title

Colonial Lahore : a history of the city and beyond / Ian Talbot, Tahir Kamran.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON.

Added Author

Kamran, Tahir, author.

Research Call Number

JFD 20-888