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Category : Bombay (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Author: Prashant Kidambi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190061707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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A fascinating history of a great cosmopolitan port and industrial city

Author: P N Parashar
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
ISBN: 9788176254052
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Rajnayaran Chandavarkar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139480448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Raj Chandavarkar was one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century. He died sadly young in 2006, leaving behind a very substantial collection of unpublished lectures, papers and articles. These have now been assembled and edited by Jennifer Davis, Gordon Johnson and David Washbrook, and their appearance will be widely welcomed by large numbers of scholars of Indian history, politics and society. The essays centre around three major themes: the city of Bombay, Indian politics and society, and Indian historiography. Each manifests Dr Chandavarkar's hallmark historical powers of imaginative empirical richness, analytic acuity and expository elegance, and the collection as a whole will make both a major contribution to the historiography of modern India, and a worthy memorial to a major scholar.

Author: L. W. Michael
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334762307
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Excerpt from The History of the Municipal Corporation of the City of Bombay Page Education physical 361 Educational Committee Exhibition, Bombay 4o england, Communication with, first established in 1797 161 letters to, Government notification in regard to conveyance Of 162 Mail service to Europeans, mortality among 183 Exodus from the City 197 Exchange compensation 359 Executive Engineer's Department 404: English mail, proposed change of day of departure of 364 Election, Municipal 473 Famine, water Filtration of water Fire, Insurance Tax Brigade Fencibles, corps of, Fever, mortality from Malta Famine Female Medical Education Flats, reclamation Of fire brigade, History Of No. Of Fires Value Of property destroyed quantity of water used at Organisation Of Taken over by Municipality financial Plague Expenditure Loan and Loan charges Government criticism on Municipal finances Controller Commissioner Sources of revenue Estimated income and expenditure Fountains Food, adulteration Of Governor's criticism on Municipal action re appointment of Superintendent of Police as Controller of Assessment. 6 Gowalia Tank, proposed reservoir at 68 General Tax (and House Rate) 15, 33, 36, 396 G. I. P. Railway Line, Opening of 161 Guinea worms 181. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Niharika Dinkar
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526139650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This book describes how imperial mappings of geographical space in terms of ‘cities of light’ and ‘hearts of darkness’ coincided with the industrialisation of light (in homes, streets, theatres) and its instrumentalisation through new representative forms (photography, film, magic lanterns, theatrical lighting). Cataloguing the imperial vision in its engagement with colonial India, the book evaluates responses by the celebrated Indian painter Ravi Varma (1848–1906) to reveal the centrality of light in technologies of vision, not merely as an ideological effect but as a material presence that produces spaces and inscribes bodies.

Author: Aruṇa Ṭikekara
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788179912935
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Tim Dyson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000567354
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country’s historical demography. This volume was significant for 3 reasons: it contributed greatly to the knowledge of India’s population history; it had major implications for the work of social and economic historians of India; and lastly the Indian context provides an excellent laboratory in which to investigate certain large-scale demographic phenomena – among others the experience of bubonic plague, influenza, cholera and famine.

Author: Farhan Karim
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 082298654X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s—after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease—a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India’s urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan Karim argues, economic scarcity became a central inspiration for architectural modernism in the subcontinent. As India moved from colonial rule to independence, the Indian government, business entities, international NGOs, and intergovernmental agencies took major initiatives to modernize housing conditions and the domestic environment of the state’s low-income population. Of Greater Dignity than Riches traces multiple international origins of austerity as an essential ingredient of postcolonial development. By prescribing model villages, communities, and ideal houses for the working class, this project of austerity eventually reduced poverty into a stylized architectural representation. In this rich and original study, Karim explains the postwar and postcolonial history of low-cost housing as an intertwined process of global transferences of knowledge, Cold War cultural politics, postcolonial nationalism, and the politics of economic development.

Author: Michael D. Metelits
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190991305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Set against the political background of 19th century colonial India, The Arthur Crawford Scandal presents a critical analysis of bureaucratic and legal corruption in the country and suggests some long-term implications for the Indian justice system. The scandal was exposed when the eponymous revenue commissioner of the Central Division of Bombay Presidency, Arthur Travers Crawford, stood accused of corruption, but was subsequently absolved of all allegations of bribery. Through a descriptive analysis of this event, the volume also focusses on the collateral damage of the scandal—the Indian victims—as well as issues of racism, cultural differences and class conflict. Written in an engaging manner, the volume draws one into the narrative of the empire and reveals how public discussions in the newspapers, court rooms, and the British parliament played a role in shaping public notions of administrative morality. The book shows that even a century ago, discriminatory treatment by officials involved in corrupt acts weakened public confidence in and support for the ruling government.