Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos 1st Edition

Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos 1st Edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190061708,0190061707,9780197507179, 0197507174

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0197507174
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780197507179
• Author: Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, Rachel Dwyer

Table contents:

1. Introduction

Part I: Community

2. Mohammad Ali Rogay: Life and Times of a Bombay Country Trader

3. Parsis and Bombay City: Community and Identity in the Nineteenth Century

4. The Great Persian Famine of 1871, Parsi Refugees and the Making of Irani Identity in Bombay

5. Bombay’s European Community during the Interwar Period

Part II: Spatial Templates

6. Reading Social Spaces: The Life of the Bombay Theatre, 1770–1843

7. Selling Home: Marketing Home Furnishings in Late Colonial Bombay

8. Social Geographies of Bombay’s Sex Trade, 1880–1920

Part III: Power

9. Worthy Objects of Charity: Government, Communities and Charitable Institutions in Colonial Bombay

10. Proletarian Bodies and Muslim Festivals: Disciplining Pleasure in Colonial Bombay

11. ‘A Powerful Weapon for the Employers?’: Workers’ Housing and Social Control in Interwar Bombay

Part IV: Nationalism

12. The Transnational Career of the ‘Indian Edison’: Shankar Abaji Bhisey and the Nationalist Promotion of Scientific Talent

13. Civil Disobedience and the City: Congress and the working classes in Bombay, c. 1930–32

14. The Politics of Business: The Congress Ministry and the Muslim League in Bombay, 1937–39

Part V: Afterword

15. Remembering Bombay: Present Memories, Past Histories

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