Spaces of Colonialism Delhi's Urban Governmentalities

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ISBN: 9781405156325 | 1405156325
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Copyright: 6/5/2007

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Examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule. The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologies presented in Michel Foucault's lecture courses Looks at problems of social and racial segregation, the policing of the cities, and biopolitical needs in urban settings Undertakes a critique of colonial governmentality on the basis of the lived spaces of everyday life

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Archival References	p. xi
Series Editors' Preface	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Imperial Delhi	p. 1
Security, Territory, Population	p. 2
Governmental rationalities	p. 2
Limits of governmentality	p. 14
Colonial Governmentality	p. 20
The spatial differences of colonial governmentality	p. 20
The temporal differences of colonial governmentality	p. 25
New Delhi: Showcase of Sovereignty	p. 28
A case for urban regicide? Beyond the capital	p. 30
The tombstone of the Raj?	p. 33
Residential and Racial Segregation: A Spatial Archaeology	p. 37
Archaeology	p. 38
Colonial Spaces of Dispersion	p. 41
The Spatial Administration of Precedence	p. 43
Visualisation: Objects of imperial discourse	p. 43
Identity: Grids of specification	p. 48
The conceptual landscape	p. 54
The Spatial Dissolution of Order	p. 59
Problematisation: Spaces and subjects of dissension	p. 59
Identities: Enunciative modalities	p. 66
Re-visioning the conceptual landscape	p. 75
Disciplining Delhi	p. 82
New Delhi: Policing the Heart of Empire	p. 83
Policing: From government to discipline	p. 83
Policing the capital	p. 85
The Keep: Protecting the core	p. 90
Picket and patrol: Protecting the glacis	p. 94
Anti-colonial Nationalism and Urban Order	p. 96
Sovereignty, law and discipline	p. 97
Identity: Civil Lines	p. 99
Visibility: Disciplined space	p. 101
Techne of discipline: Towards a 'moral effect'	p. 103
Problematisations	p. 111
'Religious Nationalism' and Urban Diagrams	p. 119
Diagrams, communalism and policing festivals	p. 119
Sketches of urban order: 1886-1923	p. 122
From urban violence to the CRS: 1924-34	p. 125
Diagrams through festivals: 1936-46	p. 135
Biopolitics and the Urban Environment	p. 149
Population Expansion and Urban Disorder	p. 149
Domains of government	p. 149
Planning without vision	p. 151
The disease of darkness: Tuberculosis and failing urban technologies	p. 156
The 'Delhi Death Trap': Problematising urban governance	p. 159
Congestion Relief, Calculation and the 'Intensity Map'	p. 164
Visualisation, the intensity map and the imperial ethos	p. 164
The improvement techne	p. 174
Ongoing problematisations	p. 181
The Western Extension, Protest and Failed Relief	p. 183
Administrative deadlock and the call for expansion: 1912-36	p. 183
Improving the Western Extension: 1937-47	p. 187
Slum Clearance and the Strictures of Imperial Finance	p. 190
The Delhi-Ajmeri Gate Slum Clearance Scheme	p. 190
'A tale of two cities': Delhi's aesthetic and political landscape	p. 193
Imperial finances and local resistance	p. 200
Re-housing and welfare biopolitics	p. 204
Conclusions: Within and Beyond the City	p. 210
Interlinked Landscapes of Ordering	p. 211
Practised connections	p. 211
Analytical connections	p. 212
Beyond Colonial Delhi	p. 216
Space	p. 216
Time	p. 218
Notes	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 247
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