Tag Archives: South Asia

The Archive Box #3: Building Colonial Capitalism in Bombay

Posted on 11. December 2020 by Global Urban History

By Sheetal Chhabria*, Connecticut College The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives in different cities across … Continue reading →

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The Archive Box #1: Calcutta Pulp Fiction

Posted on 13. October 2020 by Global Urban History

By Anindita Ghosh*, University of Manchester The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives in different cities … Continue reading →

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Exploring Intersections of Urban History and Global History: A Roundtable Discussion at EAUH 2018

Posted on 4. December 2018 by Global Urban History

By Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge, Anindita Ghosh, University of Manchester, Ayala Levin, Northwestern University, Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University, Carl Nightingale, University at Buffalo, and Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Carl Nightingale and … Continue reading →

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Princely Architectural Cosmopolitanism and Urbanity in Rampur

Posted on 3. August 2017 by Global Urban History

By Razak Khan, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen The colonial state in India often justified the continuation of princely states as a policy for the preservation of “traditional patterns” in the cultural sphere. While the “traditional” was seemingly preserved, it was also increasingly … Continue reading →

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Comparing Transnational and Global Urban History

Posted on 25. May 2017 by Global Urban History

Nicolas Kenny and Rebecca Madgin, ed., Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015. 262 pp., £75. Reviewed by Joseph Ben Prestel, Freie Universität Berlin Global urban history is not the only approach that seeks … Continue reading →

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