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Other Cities: Mythology, Memory, and Mimesis in Urban South Asia - Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City. By Madhuri Desai. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. x, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780295741994 (paper). - Urban Traditions and Historic Environments in Sindh: A Fading Legacy of Shikarpoor, Historic City. By Anila Naeem. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 265 pp. ISBN: 9789462981591 (cloth). - Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata: From a Colonial to a Post-Marxist City. By Siddhartha Sen. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 289 pp. ISBN: 9789462981119 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2019

Pablo S. Bose
Pablo S. Bose*
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University of Vermont
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pablo.bose@uvm.edu
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , August 2019 , pp. 691 - 696
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 

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1 This is the term novelist Philip Reeve uses to describe his vision of a dystopian future of inter-urban competition where mobile cities literally consume one another.