Old Delhi's parallel book bazaar

Dhingra, Kanupriya (2024) Old Delhi's parallel book bazaar. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009463027

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Abstract

This Element looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books and a site of resilience and possibilities. The first section studies the bazaar's spatiality - its location, relocation, and respatialisation. Three actors play a major role in creating and organising this spatiality: the sellers, the buyers, and the civic authorities. The second section narrativizes the biographies of the booksellers of Daryaganj to offer a map of the hidden social and material networks that support the informal modes of bookselling. Amidst order and chaos, using their specialised knowledge, Daryaganj booksellers create distinctive mechanisms to serve the diverse reading public of Delhi. Using ethnography, oral interviews, and rhythmanalysis, this Element tells a story of urban aspirations, state-citizen relations, official and unofficial cultural economies, and imaginations of other viable worlds of being and believing.

Item Type: Book
Keywords: book bazaar spatiality | street vendors | book history | ethnography
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Arts and Humanities > Literature and Literary Theory
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of Languages & Literature
Depositing User: Dharmveer Modi
Date Deposited: 24 Nov 2024 19:49
Last Modified: 24 Nov 2024 19:49
Official URL: https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?ur...
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/8816

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