دانلود کتاب Much Ado Over Coffee - Indian Coffee House Then and Now

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Adda and Public Spaces of Sociability before the ICH
Adda: A Universal Social Practice?
Adda in the Current Context
Delhi
Allahabad
Calcutta
Conclusion
2. India Coffee House: A New Space in the City
The Birth of the India Coffee House
Everyday Practices in the New Urban Space
Democracy in ICH and the Bhadralok
Adda: Space of Dominion and Invisible Hierarchy
Semiotics of the Coffee House
The Coffee House and Imagination
Conclusion
3. The Workers and the Coffee House: From ‘India’ to ‘Indian’
The Coffee Board, the Internal Market and the Coffee House
The Formation of the Coffee Board Labour Union
From India to Indian: The Struggle for Survival
The ICWCSL and the ICH
Functioning
Challenges to Overcome
Conclusion
4. The Indian Coffee House and the World of Literature
Calcutta: All Roads Led to the Coffee House?
Hungry Generation Movement
Shruti and Shastrabirodhi Movement
Shotojol Jhornar Dhwoni
Moheener Ghoraguli
Allahabad: The Place of Literary Pilgrimage
The Crowd at the Coffee House
What Was All That Ado About?
Delhi: The Capital of Hindi Literature
The Performers of the Coffee-Tea House Act
And the Act Stimulated by Coffee
Conclusion
5. Brewing Discontent Instead of Coffee? Politics and the Indian Coffee House
The PRRM
The Naxalbari Movement in Calcutta and ICH
The Liberation War of Bangladesh
The Emergency
Conclusion
6. How Public is the Public Space of the Indian Coffee House?
The Coffee House and its Environs
Women and the Public Space of the Coffee House
The Pioneers in Calcutta
Delhi
Allahabad
Accommodating the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities (LGBT)
Conclusion
7. The Middle Class and Coffee Houses: Old and New
The New Coffee Cafés
The Middle Class: New versus Old
The Old Connoisseurs of the Coffee House
Is the Tradition of Adda Finally Dead?
The Current Visitors of the Coffee House
The Political Economy and the Cooperative
Conclusion
Glossary
Indian Coffee House through Photographs