1st Edition

Time, Space and Capital in India Longing and Belonging in an Urban-Industrial Hinterland

By Atreyee Majumder Copyright 2019
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

At this western corner of the confluence of the Bay of Bengal and the busy river Hooghly, West Bengal in eastern India lies a geography that has hosted many outsiders – traders, merchants, colonial masters, missionaries and wanderers. This book is fundamentally concerned with the relations among the theoretical categories of time, space and capital in India and shows registers of temporality... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Hideout  3. Capital  4. Space/Time  5. Text/Talk  6. Hero  7. Evidence

Biography

Atreyee Majumder is Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, Canada.