A joint enterprise
Subtitle: Indian elites and the making of British Bombay
By: Preeti Chopra
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780816670369; 9780816670376
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Architecture and society; Social ecology; Social conditions; Colonial cities; History
Other titles: Indian elites and the making of British Bombay
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A joint enterprise; title: Anglo-Indian architecture and the meaning of its styles; title: The biography of an unknown native engineer; title: Dividing practices in Bombay's hospitals and lunatic asylums; title: An unforeseen landscape of contradictions; title: Of gods and mortal heroes : conundrums of the secular landscape of colonial Bombay.