The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai / Mary E. Hancock.

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Hancock, Mary Elizabeth.

Title & Author:

The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai / Mary E. Hancock.

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Description:

xi, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index.
1. Making the past in a global present : Chennai's new heritage -- pt. 1. The formal city and its pasts -- 2. Governing the past : Chennai's histories -- 3. Memory, mourning, and politics -- 4. Modernity remembered : temples, publicity, and heritage -- pt. 2. Restructured memories -- 5. Consuming the past : tourism's cultural economies -- 6. Recollecting the rural in suburban Chennai -- 7. The village as vernacular cosmopolis -- 8. Conclusion: "How many museums can one have?"

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ISBN:

9780253352231 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0253352231 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Collective memory India Chennai.
Cultural property India Chennai.
Mémoire collective Inde Chennai.
Collective memory
Cultural policy
Cultural property
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Chennai (India) Cultural policy.
India Chennai
Madras

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Location: Library main 259881
Call No.: BIB 190798
Status: Available

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