01587nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801270007608200120020310000170021524500960023226000540032830000250038236500080040752008820041565000160129765000190131365000330133270000160136520260327154815.0260327b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781009510837  a: Savera Book Distributorsb: 4754, Akarshan Bhawan, 23 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhic: 25-26/CRB/1183d: 27/03/2026  a351 BOY  aBoyk, David.  aProvincial Metropolisb: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India.c/ David Boyk.  a, New Yorkb; Cambridge University Pressc, 2025.  axvii, 313p.c: 24cm.  b906  aThis book tells the story of the city of Patna, in the north Indian region of Bihar, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A century and more earlier, Patna had been an important and populous city, but it had come to be seen by many-and is still seen today-as merely part of the mofussil, the provincial hinterland. But despite the city's real decline, it continued to nurture a vibrant and cosmopolitan intellectual culture that linked it with cities and towns across northern India and beyond. Urdu literary gatherings and other Islamicate traditions inherited from Mughal times helped animate the networks that sustained satirical newspapers and scholarly libraries. Drawing on rich archival research in Urdu, Hindi, and English, Provincial Metropolis shows that Patna's intellectual and cultural life thrived not despite its provinciality but because of it.  aMetropolis   aIntellectuals   aHinterland in Colonial India  aDavid Boyk.