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100 _aNair Janaki
245 _aThe Promise of the Metropolis : Bangalore's Twentieth Century
250 _a2nd
260 _aOxford
_bOxford University Press
_c2006
300 _a454p
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365 _bRs.795
505 _aContents: List of Photographs List of maps List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Where does the city begin? – ONE Begaluru/Bangalore : the presence of the past – TWO Remembered and imagined cities – THREE Conceiving the city : master planning and informal power – FOUR The map is not the territory : law and the production of space – FIVE Past perfect : architecture and public life – SIX Language and the right to the city – SEVEN Battles for Bangalore : re-territorializing the city – EIGHT The "body politic" : gender and the practice of power – CONCLUSION Is "Singapore" Bangalore's destiny? Notes Selected Bibliography Index
650 _a1. Social Change - India--Bangalore2. Bangalore - India - History - 20th Century
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