The book is fundamentally concerned with the relations among the theoretical categories of time, space and capital in India. It shows registers of temporality and spatiality generated by historical phases of interaction with industrial capital. Such temporal and spatial sensibilities render themselves legible in political, ethical and aesthetic sensibilities of people who have lived close to these industrial architectures for generations. The analysis is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Howrah, West Bengal, in eastern India. At this western corner of the confluence of the Bay of Bengal and the busy river Hooghly in eastern India, lies a geography that has hosted many outsiders - traders, merchants, colonial masters, missionaries, wanderers. Howrah is a city and a district strung together though towns and villages - administratively marked as a district, where ships docked at Calcutta would come here to repair. Over time, in the nineteenth century, it grew into a feeding geography for the colonial capital Calcutta - supplying labor and manufacturing mostly engineering goods; later jute. Companies such as Jessop and Martin Burn arrived on this geography to take advantage of its cheap labor (from the surrounding geographies) as also a suitable geography through which goods could be moved easily out into the Bay. Landscapes which act as feeding geographies for manufacture and trade experience a different version of urbanism - distinct from that of the big city or metropolis. Examining this form of urbanism that is not linked to the city-form of spatial organization, and which she is calling a "hinterland urbanism", the author brings out the theoretical implications by showing the relations among time, space and capital. The book makes a significant contribution in anthropology of space, urban anthropology and anthropology of capital as well as urban studies and urban anthropology.