Provincial metropolis: intellectuals and the hinterland in colonial india
Auteur :
Boyk, David
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009510837
Date de publication :
4 sept. 2025
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book examines the city of Patna, in the north Indian region of Bihar, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Once a thriving urban center, Patna had become provincial. Nonetheless, its intellectual and cultural life remained vigorous, not despite its provinciality but because of it.