Professor (Dr.) Arup K. Chatterjee’s feature article “Jamshedpur: The city of steel” (published 23 February 2019 in The Hindu) has been cited in the Wikipedia article on “Jamshedpur.”
The original piece — “Jamshedpur: The city of steel” — offers a concise and richly contextualized account of the city’s industrial origins, its planned development under the aegis of the Tata Group, and the social and cultural transformations that accompanied rapid industrialization. The article was retrieved for citation on 20 January 2021 and has since been used to add historical nuance and journalistic perspective to the Wikipedia entry.
About the Article — Themes and Contributions
Dr. Chatterjee’s piece traces how Jamshedpur evolved from an industrial venture into a living city shaped by labour migration, civic institutions, and corporate urbanism. Drawing on archival references, historical summaries, and local testimony, the article foregrounds several enduring themes: the role of industrial planning in shaping urban form; the creation of civic amenities and social infrastructure by Tata Steel; the formation of working‑class communities and their cultural expressions; and the challenges of sustaining industry‑city relations in a changing economic climate.
The piece is written for a general readership but is careful to balance accessible storytelling with factual rigour. Its value as a citation lies in the way it synthesises industrial history and everyday life — offering readers and editors of the Wikipedia page an authoritative yet readable source that situates Jamshedpur’s material infrastructure within broader social histories of modern India.
Why This Matters — Public Scholarship and Cultural Memory
Wikipedia is often the first stop for readers seeking quick, reliable background on places. The inclusion of Dr. Chatterjee’s article in the Jamshedpur Wikipedia entry is an important example of how newspaper features grounded in archival evidence and expert reporting can inform public knowledge repositories.
This citation underscores two key points. First, well-researched journalism can serve as an accessible bridge between specialist scholarship and public audiences — especially for topics where academic monographs may be fewer or less widely read. Second, it highlights the permeability between journalistic accounts and collaborative encyclopedias: when editors draw on high-quality newspaper features, readers gain a richer, more contextualised understanding of a city’s history than might be possible from bare statistics alone.
The citation also matters for local and diasporic readers who seek to understand how industrial cities like Jamshedpur were imagined, built, and lived in. For students, journalists, or curious travellers, the Wikipedia article — now augmented by Dr. Chatterjee’s reporting — offers an entry point to discussions about planned industrial settlements, corporate responsibility in urban form, and the lived experience of India’s factory towns.
Further Reading and Contact
We welcome notifications from readers, editors, and researchers who reference Dr. Chatterjee’s work. If you use this article for research, teaching, or publication, or if you spot further mentions of Dr. Chatterjee in public resources, please let us know via the contact page on this site. We view every citation as an opportunity to extend scholarly conversations into public histories, and to make the layered stories of India’s industrial cities accessible to wider audiences.
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