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Film City Urbanism in India
  • Hyderabad, from Princely City to Global City ,1890-2000
  • C. Yamini Krishna
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  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2026

  • Going to the cinema: princely urbanism in Hyderabad and Secunderabad

  • C. Yamini Krishna
  • Journal:
    Urban History / Volume 51 / Issue 1 / February 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 October 2022, pp. 48-60
    Print publication:
    February 2024
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  • 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.