Colonial Lahore: A History of the City and Beyond by Talbot, Ian

Colonial Lahore: A History of the City and Beyond (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780190642938)

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Colonial Lahore: A History of the City and Beyond by Talbot, Ian

Colonial Lahore: A History of the City and Beyond

$37.50
Colonial Lahore: A History of the City and Beyond by Talbot, Ian

Colonial Lahore: A History of the City and Beyond

$37.50
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Ian Talbot, Tahir Kamran
ISBN-10: 0190642939
ISBN-13: 9780190642938
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2017
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d

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By Ian Talbot
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Ian Talbot is Professor of modern British history and formerly head of history at the University of Southampton. He has written numerous books on the Partition of India, and the modern history of Pakistan.
Tahir Kamran teaches history at G. C. University, Lahore and was until recently Allama Iqbal Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Wolfson College. He has published widely on sectarian militancy and the politics of religious exclusion in Pakistan and is an editor of the Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies.

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