Prashant Kidambi

The Making of an Indian Metropolis

Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Drawing together strands that have hitherto been treated separately, and based on a wide range of untapped archival sources, this book offers the first systematic analytical account of historical change in a modernizing colonial city. In highlighting the colonial experience of historical processes that have attracted considerable attention in recent scholarship, it restores the much neglected global dimension to a comparative discussion of these themes. At the same time the volume demonstrates the manner in which the globalizing forces unleashed by European imperialism were appropriated and transformed in the colonial context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780754656128
• ISBN-10: 0754656128
• Artikelnr.: 45540354

Autorenporträt

Prashant Kidambi is Lecturer in Colonial Urban History in The School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The rise of Bombay
'A disease of locality': plague and the crisis of 'sanitary order'
Reordering the city: the Bombay improvement trust
'The ultimate masters of the city': policing public order
Forging civil society
'Social service', civic activism and the urban poor
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.