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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780415844352 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
307.760954 DEY |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ishita Dey |
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; Raṇabīra Samāddāra |
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; Suhit Sen |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Beyond Kolkata |
| Remainder of title |
: Rajarhat and the dystopia of urban imagination |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
/Ishita Dey |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New Delhi, India |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
: Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
, 2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvi, 265 pages |
| Dimensions |
; 22 cm. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Cities and the urban imperative. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Contents note |
1. Where is Rajarhat? --<br/>2. Destruction of a world --<br/>3. Losers and gainers --<br/>4. Urban legends of consent --<br/>5. Logistics and nightmares --<br/>6. New town, new labour --<br/>7. The global and national histories of Rajarhat --<br/>8. Politics of the multitude --<br/>9. Concluding reflections. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state government in the mid-1990s, in pandering to the vision of urban planners of creating a hi-tech town beyond an unruly, crowded Kolkata, and feeding the hunger of realtors and developers, the city is built on the foundations of coercive, even violent, land acquisition, state largesse and corruption -- and at the cost of erasing a self-sufficient subsistence economy and despoiling a fragile environment. Yet, after its completion and departure of construction labour, the new town appears as a necropolis, a ghost city, that belies its promised image of an urban utopia, even as the displaced locals lead a precarious, mobile existence as 'transit labour', engaged in odd and informal jobs. Written on the basis of intensive fieldwork, government documents, court records, and chronicles of public protests, this book broadly analyses the politics and economics of urbanisation in the age of post-colonial capitalism, particularly the paradoxical combination of neoliberal and primitive modes of capital accumulation upon which the global emergence of 'new towns' is based |
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Social Sciences |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Kolkata (India) -- Social conditions -- 21st century. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Raṇabīra Samāddāra; Suhit Sen |
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| Koha item type |
CPACT Library |
