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The future of Bangalore's cosmopolitan pasts : civility and difference in a global city /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willford, Andrew C. (Andrew Clinton) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Bangalore (India) > History.
Sociolinguistics > India > Bangalore.
Cultural pluralism > India > Bangalore.
Tamil (Indic people) > India > Bangalore > Ethnic identity.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Bangalore in history : empires, states and borderlands
  • Rajkumar's abduction and a dispute over water
  • The Kannada movement and Tamil revival
  • "What? Legitimacy? Just use Vivekananda in the name of the movement"
  • Local pluralisms
  • Statue politics : political darshan and urban space
  • The psychiatric troubling of identity
  • Conclusion : the Kumaraswami festival and civility.