MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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170123t20172017ii a b 000 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9788178244877 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
891.43309 |
| Item number |
D2F4 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dalmia, Vasudha |
| 9 (RLIN) |
359502 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Fiction as history: the novel and the city in modern North India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Ranikhet |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Permanenet Black |
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd. |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvi, 428 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
This book provides a panoramic view of the intellectual and cultural life of North India over a century – from the aftermath of the 1857 uprising to the end of the Nehruvian era.<br/><br/>The North’s historical cities, rooted in an Indo-Persianate culture, began changing more slowly than the Presidency towns founded by the British. Focusing on six major cities – Agra, Allahabad, Banaras, Delhi, Lahore, and Lucknow – Dalmia takes up eight canonical Hindi novels set in them to trace a literary history of domestic and political cataclysms. Her exploration of emerging Hindu middle classes, changing personal and professional ambitions, and new notions of married life provides a vivid sense of urban modernity.<br/><br/>She looks at the radical social transformations associated with post-1857 urban restructuring, and at the political flux resulting from social reform, Gandhian nationalism, communalism, Partition, and the Cold War. These, she argues, shaped the realm of the intimate as much as the public sphere. Love and friendship, notions of privacy, attitudes to women’s work, and relationships within households are among the book’s major themes.<br/><br/><br/>http://www.orientblackswan.com/BookDescription?isbn=978-81-7824-487-7&id=9&t=c |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Hindi fiction |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Politics in literature. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
History in literature. |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
India, North |
| General subdivision |
In literature. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
359504 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Book |
