Delhi, in Thy Name: The Many Legends that Make a City (New Delhi: Rupa Publications, 2021)

Regime changes in any country and at any time have often been accompanied with a vast array of symbolic demonstrations of what that governance represents. Place names are a most potent political symbol in this regard. We know, for instance, that an immediate consequence of the Russian Revolution was...

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Main Author: Roychowdhury, Adrija 1990- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Univ. 2022
In: Nidān
Year: 2022, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 142-145
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Summary:Regime changes in any country and at any time have often been accompanied with a vast array of symbolic demonstrations of what that governance represents. Place names are a most potent political symbol in this regard. We know, for instance, that an immediate consequence of the Russian Revolution was that a majority of street names in the country carrying memories of the Tsarist regime were erased and replaced by those carrying names of Soviet leaders or philosophies that the new Communist regime represented.
ISSN:2414-8636
Contains:Enthalten in: Nidān
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2022.1