iPreface & Acknowledgments/iiIntroduction: Modern India and the Claims of the City/iibMosaic of the City:/b Following the Equator/i / Mark TwainiA Handsome City Seated on Two Bays/i / Sir Edwin ArnoldiIrani Restaurant Instructions/i / Nissim EzekieliA Morning Walk/i / Nissim EzekieliCity Landscape/i / Gieve PateliMy Father Travels/i / Dilip ChitreiFrom Bombay Central/i / Gieve PateliVertigo/i / Ashok BankeriA Voyeur is Born & Death of a Well/i / Saleem PeeradinaiNagar-sangit (Song of the City)/i / Rabindranath TagoreiCalcutta/i / Buddhadeva BoseiCalcutta if you must exile me/i / Pritish NandyiCalcutta's Jesus/i / Nirendranath ChakravartyiCity of Memories/i / Sunil GangopadhyayiCalcutta Conversations/i / Lina Fruzzetti and Akos OstoriBanaras/i / Kedarnath SinghiA Kayastha's View of Delhi/i / Ravi DayaliDelhi/i / Ghulam M. SheikhiCorridor: A Graphic Novel/i / Sarnath BanerjeeiDaily hurts/i / Kulwinder KauriCity Simians & The Ridge/i / Ranjit LaliLucknow/i / Kunwar NarainiFrom House to House/i / K.S. NarasimhaswamyiThe City, Evening, and an Old Man: Me/i / DhoomiliCityscape/i / Nirupama DuttibImagination of the City, the City of Imagination:/b Oh! Calcutta/i (folktale) / A.K. RamanujaniCity and Village/i / Rabindranath TagoreiYeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan/i / Majrooh SultanpuriiThe Moor's Last Sigh/i / Salman RushdieiSatyajit Ray's Calcutta: Friend or Adversary?/i / Amitabha BhattacharyaiBanaras: City of Death/i / Diana L. EckiLaloo's Patna, and Mine/i / Amitava KumariThe Strange Case of the Monkeyman/i / Aditya NigamiOoru and the World/i / U.R.
AnanthamurthyiThe Alternative Cosmopolitanism of Cochin/i / Ashis NandyibThe City in Colonial India:/b The Observant Owl/i / Kaliprasanna SinhaiThe Opening of the East Indian Railways/i / G.H.iOpium City: Early Victorian Bombay/i / Amar FarooquiiHyderabad/i / Narendra LutheriA Vision of India/i / Sidney LowiAutobiography of an Unknown Indian/i / Nirad ChaudhuriiAhmedabad: A Study in Urban Indian History/i / Kenneth L. GillioniThe City Political: A Portfolio/i / Sudhir Patwardhan; Note on the Artist: Vinay LalibSpaces, Sights, Surroundings: Architecture of the City and its Streets:/b The New Delhi/i / Herbert BakeriSpace as a Resource: The New Landscape/i / Charles CorreaiStreet Culture/i / Arjun AppaduraiiA History of Calcutta's Streets/i / P. Thankappan NairiPunjabi Baroque/i / Gautam BhatiaiMumbai/i / Suketu MehtaiThe Urban Landscape of Deewaar/i / Vinay LaliFurther Reading: A Select Bibliography/iiNotes on Contributors/iiCopyright Acknowledgments/i.