The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

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events on the Maidan, including a rickshaw
pullers’ strike and a palanquin bearers’ strike, reported
to have taken place as early as 1827; see
The City of Joy (London: Century, 1985), p. 179.
31 See Ashish K. Maitra, “Calcutta,” Architecture
and Design, May–June 1989, pp. 21–43, for
a discussion of the role of architecture in the cultural
history of Calcutta. See also Kulbhushan
Jain, “In Search of Indianness.” Indian Institute
of Architects’ Journal January 1991, pp. 23–29;
and Shireesh Deshpanole, “Search for Identity,”
Indian Institute of Architects’ Journal, June
1987, pp. 29–34.
32 This history of infrastructural intervention
is discussed in Norma Evenson, The Indian Metropolis:
A view toward the West (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1989).
33 Bhabha, The Location of Culture, p. 86.