History, culture and the Indian city
Subtitle: essays
By: by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780521768719
Subjects: India -- History; India -- Social conditions; Bombay (India) -- History; Bombay (India) -- Social conditions
Notes: "Bibliography of the published works of Rajnarayan Chandavarkar" (p. 260-262).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bombay's perennial modernities / Sewers / Peasants and proletarians in Bombay city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / State and society in colonial India / Religion and nationalism in India / From neighbourhood to nation: the rise and fall of the Left in Bombay's Girangaon in the twentieth century / Historians and the nation / Urban history and urban anthropology in South Asia / Aspects of the historiography of labour in India.