The colonial city and the challenge of modernity
Subtitle: urban hegemonies and civic contestations in Bombay city, 1900-1925
By: Sandip Hazareesingh
Series: New perspectives in South Asian history -- 18; New perspectives in South Asian history -- 18.
Publisher: Orient Longman
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hyderabad, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9788125031642
Subjects: History; Urbanization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (219-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Colonial modernism and the flawed paradigms of urban renewal; title: War, censorship and civic dissent: Bombay during the First World War; title: Urban confrontations: Gandhi, Horniman, and the material test of spiritual politics; title: The quest for urban citizenship: civic rights, public opinion and colonial resistance.