The Making of an Indian Metropolis (Historical Urban Studies)
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: August 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780754656128
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Social history; First World War, 1914-1918; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History; History - General History; History: World; British Empire; Asia - India & South Asia; Modern - General; 19th century; Bombay; City planning; Civil society; India
Description: "This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a variety of archival sources, the book offers a systematic analytical account of historical change in a premier colonial city. In particular, it considers the ways in which the turbulent changes unleashed by European modernity were negotiated, appropriated or resisted by the colonised in one of the major cities of the Indian Ocean region." "This wide-ranging work will be essential reading for specialists in British imperial history, postcolonial studies and urban social history. It will also be of interest to all those concerned with the comparative history of governance and public culture in the modern city."--BOOK JACKET.