The Future of Bangalore’s Cosmopolitan Pasts: Civility and Difference in a Global City 9780824875435

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: Identity in the Modern, Postcolonial World
Chapter 2. Bangalore in History: Empires, States, and Borderlands
Chapter 3. Rajkumar’s Abduction and a Dispute over Water
Chapter 4. The Kannada Movement and Tamil Revival
Chapter 5. “What? Legitimacy? Just Use Vivekananda in the Name of the Movement”
Chapter 6. Local Pluralisms: Domlur, Ulsoor, Malleswaram, and Melkote
Chapter 7. Statue Politics: Political Darshan and Urban Space
Chapter 8. The Psychiatric Troubling of Identity
Conclusion: The Kumaraswami Festival and Civility
Glossary and Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index

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