Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City

Clark‐Decès, Isabelle (Herausgeber:in) / Gandhi, Ajay (Autor:in)

A Companion to the Anthropology of India ; 202-222

04.02.2011

21 pages

9781444390599 , 9781405198929

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444390599.ch11

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

eastern end, sellers of forest medicine and aphrodisiacs ‐ jari‐booti, sande ka tel , urban modernism, planned, inscribed and mapped ‐ intentions as reality , the akhara, a dangal or wrestling tournament echoes, the street or bazaar , anthropological riddle, Old Delhi laying ‐ how “Indian culture” or the “Indian city” worked , Meena Bazaar, from some low‐slung brick stalls ‐ east of the Jama Masjid , Meena Bazaar's seventeenth‐century material surroundings ‐ obscured by demolition and improvisation , crowds, congestion, conviviality ‐ enduring life of the Old City , middle of bazaar, grassy expanse ‐ framing tomb of a nationalist leader, Maulana Azad , influence on Indian city‐space ‐ crystallizing after a native rebellion against British rule in 1857 , Old Delhi's streets, most democratic in city ‐ open to educated and impoverished, engineers and junkies