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Architecture and Urbanism in a Contact Zone: Histories of Difference, Migrancy and Dwelling in Kolkata book cover

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Architecture and Urbanism in a Contact Zone Histories of Difference, Migrancy and Dwelling in Kolkata

By Mark Mukherjee Campbell Copyright 2023
208 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture and cultural modernity in Kolkata from the early colonial period to the beginning of the era of India’s economic liberalization. It charts how these themes were manifest in what was an important ‘contact zone’ in the history of globalization and the... Read more

Introduction

　

Part 1. Urban space

　

1 Difference, segregation and hybrid urbanism in colonial Calcutta

　

2 Colonial modernity, migrancy and urban residence

　

3 Postcolonial Kolkata

　

Part 2. Domestic space

　

4 Domestic architecture, difference and hybridity

　

5 Tensions between tradition and modernity in domestic architecture

　

6 Domestic architecture and migrancy

　

Conclusion

Biography

Mark Mukherjee Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Hertfordshire.

"Mark Mukherjee Campbell’s Architecture and Urbanism in a Contact Zone: Histories of Difference, Migrancy and Dwelling in Kolkata offers a rich spatial history of one of India’s most com­plex cities. The book [is] an essen­tial read for students of urban history, who will further find its historical maps and architectural drawings immensely valuable."

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India, Fall 2025 issue of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review.

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