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020			_a9781009510837
028			_a: Savera Book Distributors _b: 4754, Akarshan Bhawan, 23 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi _c: 25-26/CRB/1183 _d: 27/03/2026
082			_a351 BOY
100			_aBoyk, David.
245			_aProvincial Metropolis _b: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India. _c/ David Boyk.
260			_a, New York _b; Cambridge University Press _c, 2025.
300			_axvii, 313p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b906
520			_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.
650			_aMetropolis
650			_aIntellectuals
650			_aHinterland in Colonial India
700			_aDavid Boyk.
942			_cBOOK
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