Colonial Lahore: A History of the City and Beyond

by Ian Talbot, Tahir Kamran, Ian Talbot

A number of studies of colonial Lahore in recent years have explored such themes as the city's modernity, its cosmopolitanism and the rise of communalism which culminated in the bloodletting of 1947. This first synoptic history moves away from the prism of the Great Divide of 1947 to examine the cultural and social connections which linked colonial Lahore with North India and beyond. In contrast to portrayals of Lahore as inward looking and a world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190642939
• ISBN13: 9780190642938
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"