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Planning the City: Urbanization and Reform in Calcutta c.1800–c.1940. By Partho Datta. New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2012. xv, 332 pp. Rs 650 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2013

Stephen Legg*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 

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32 Beverley, Eric Lewis, “Colonial Urbanism and South Asian Cities,” Social History 36, no. 4 (2011): 482–97CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

33 Contrast this with Pekham, Robert and Pomfret, David M., Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia, 1880–1949 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013)Google Scholar.

34 For the broader move beyond nationalism, see Nair, Janaki, “Beyond Nationalism: Modernity, Governance and a New Urban History for India,” in Urban History 36, special issue no. 2 (August 2009): 327–41CrossRefGoogle Scholar.