Drainage as a Spectacle: Modernity, Phantasmagoria, and Infrastructural Polity in Nineteenth- to Early Twentieth-Century Calcutta
Published online on November 17, 2025
Abstract
Journal of Urban History, Ahead of Print.
The drainage infrastructure of Kolkata is more than 160 years old at present. Its establishment was a project of European modernity to make the town habitable and serve as an economic enterprise. In what follows, I trace its inception since the nineteenth ...
The drainage infrastructure of Kolkata is more than 160 years old at present. Its establishment was a project of European modernity to make the town habitable and serve as an economic enterprise. In what follows, I trace its inception since the nineteenth ...