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- Title
Going to the cinema: princely urbanism in Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
- Authors
Krishna, C. Yamini
- Abstract
The experience of the urban in nineteenth-century Hyderabad was interwoven with the experience of modern technologies like film. Cinema participated in constituting a modern public; practices of film viewing were practices of enacting the modern. Through a study of conflicts in the space of cinema, this article examines the politics of constituting and controlling the urban in the princely city of Hyderabad and the cantonment town of Secunderabad. It suggests that the princely modern adapted new technologies but was rooted in patrimonial traditions. The article also argues that the cantonment had a dependency relationship with the princely city, and urban space as constituted through cinema was the site of power negotiations between the princely ruler and the British.
- Subjects
HYDERABAD (Pakistan); CITIES &; towns; PUBLIC spaces
- Publication
Urban History, 2024, Vol 51, Issue 1, p48
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926822000578