Architecture of intellectual sociality: Tea and coffeehouses in post-colonial Delhi

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• 作者：Ravikant Sharma ^{ravikant@csds.in}
• 关键词：Coffeehouse ; Public ; Delhi ; Hindi literati ; Sociality ; Dislocation
• 刊名：City, Culture and Society
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：7
• 期：4
• 页码：275-281
• 全文大小：228 K
• 卷排序：7

文摘

Creating the context: Delhi after Independence/Partition and migration of refugees. Enthusiasm for the capital of a new India; Struggle of starting life a new. Tea/coffeehouses emerge as a home away from home. But do they like the city and the power it wields and represents? Critiques. Thick description of what the ‘virtuosi’ do here. A flavour of their intellectual interactions, debates, modes of socialisation and worldly exchanges. A place of hospitality, solidarity, networking, mentoring. A gendered Space? Quite so. A particular conjuncture in history when the place gets transformed as a hub of an urban social movement against price rise. A glimpse of the contemporary moment.