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040 _cCUS
082 _a320.09
_bNAI/T
100 _aNair, Janaki
245 4 _aThe promise of the metropolis: Bangalore's twentieth century/
_cJanaki Nair
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2008.
300 _axviii, 454 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c25 cm.
505 _aWhere does the city begin? -- Begaluru/Bangalore : the presence of the past -- Remembered and imagined cities -- Conceiving the city : master planning and informal power -- The map is not the territory : law and the production of space -- Past perfect : architecture and public life -- Language and the right to the city -- Battles for Bangalore : re-territorializing the city -- The "body politic" : gender and the practise of power -- Is "Singapore" Bangalore's destiny?
650 _aSocial change
942 _cWB16