In the City, Out of Place
Subtitle: Nuisance, Pollution, and Dwelling in Delhi, C. 1850-2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780198097297
Subjects: Environmental health; India, environmental conditions
Description: This book is a contemporary history of environmental issues in Delhi. It traces the journey from the engagement with sanitary matters in the nineteenth century to issues of air and water pollution, waste and toxicity in contemporary Delhi. Matters of environmental improvement, it suggests, are synchronous in Indian cities rather than being separated in time and space, making them distinct from cities of the global North.