Hyderabad

Memoirs of a City
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-949245-9
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Starting with the period prior to the city’s birth in 1591, the book presents
an unbroken and colourful chronicle of Hyderabad, one of contemporary
India’s most important cities. Charting the city’s fascinating march from
Bhagnagar to Hyderabad to ‘Cyberabad’, this story is replete with diverse
engaging, eccentric, and often daring characters, some of whose lives are
stranger than fi ction. With a new chapter and updated information, this
edition will appeal to anybody keen on learning more about the city,
including scholars, researchers, journalists, and historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luther, Narendra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Über Autor(innen)

Narendra Luther, a former top civil servant is the best living authority on
Hyderabad. His important books include Biography of the Founder of
Hyderabad; three coff ee-table books: Raja Deen Dayal: Prince of
Photographers, Lashkar: The Story of Secunderabad, and The Rockitecture
of Andhra Pradesh. Some of his books have been translated into
Urdu, Telugu, Hindi, and Oriya.