The Origin of Bombay
Author | : Joseph Gerson Cunha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Bombay (India) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph Gerson Cunha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Bombay (India) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Prashant Kidambi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190061707 |
A fascinating history of a great cosmopolitan port and industrial city
Author | : Shaʼul Sapir |
Publisher | : Bene Israel Heritage Museum and Geneological Research Centre |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788192072135 |
Dr. Sapir draws upon extensive research, to tell the captivating story of the Baghdadi Jewish Community in Bombay and their unique contribution to the urban landscape of the city during the latter period of the British Raj.
Author | : Juned Shaikh |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2021-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295748516 |
Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with aspects of modern life, including the Marxist discourse of class, caste distinctions played a pivotal role in determining who was excluded from the city’s economic transformations. Labor historian Juned Shaikh documents the symbiosis between industrial capitalism and the caste system, mapping the transformation of the city as urban planners marked Dalit neighborhoods as slums that needed to be demolished in order to build a modern Bombay. Drawing from rare sources written by the urban poor and Dalits in the Marathi language—including novels, poems, and manifestos—Outcaste Bombay examines how language and literature became a battleground for cultural politics. Through careful scrutiny of one city’s complex social fabric, this study illuminates issues that remain vital for labor activists and urban planners around the world.
Author | : Gyan Prakash |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2010-10-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 069114284X |
Starting from the catastrophic floods and terrorist attacks of recent years, Prakash reaches back to the sixteenth-century Portuguese conquest to reveal the stories behind Mumbai's historic journey. Examining Mumbai's role as a symbol of opportunity and reinvention, he looks at its nineteenth-century development under British rule and its twentieth-century emergence as a fabled city on the sea. Different layers of urban experience come to light as he recounts the narratives of the Nanavati murder trial and the rise and fall of the tabloid Blitz, and Mumbai's transformation from the red city of trade unions and communists into the saffron city of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena. Starry-eyed planners and elite visionaries, cynical leaders and violent politicians of the street, land sharks and underworld dons jostle with ordinary citizens and poor immigrants as the city copes with the dashed dreams of postcolonial urban life and lurches into the seductions of globalization. --
Author | : Emily Stehr |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2018-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781720010258 |
Interesting History of Mumbai aka Bombay Word Origin of Mumbai:
Author | : Anjali Nerlekar |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2016-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810132753 |
Anjali Nerlekar's Bombay Modern is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of both Indian literary modernist studies and postcolonial Indian studies. Nerlekar shows how a bilingual, materialist reading of Kolatkar's texts uncovers a uniquely resistant sense of the "local" that defies the monolinguistic cultural pressures of the post-1960 years and straddles the boundaries of English and Marathi writing. Bombay Modern uncovers an alternative and provincial modernism through poetry, a genre that is marginal to postcolonial studies, and through bilingual scholarship across English and Marathi texts, a methodology that is currently peripheral at best to both modernist studies and postcolonial literary criticism in India. Eschewing any attempt to define an overarching or universal modernism, Bombay Modern delimits its sphere of study to "Bombay" and to the "post-1960" (the sathottari period) in an attempt to examine at close range the specific way in which this poetry redeployed the regional, the national, and the international to create a very tangible yet transient local.
Author | : Stephen Meredyth Edwardes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Bombay (India) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Shilpa Agarwal |
Publisher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 156947558X |
As the supernatural weaves into the narrative of family life, the Mittals must struggle to come to terms with the secrets that had been locked away behind a mysterious bolted door. Themes of hidden shame, forbidden love and a call for absolute sacrifice enrich this beautifully written novel. Agarwal unfolds the story against an intense portrait of Bombay, delving into the world of the slum-dwellers, prostitutes and hermaphrodites who survive on the peripheries of Indian society.
Author | : Jerry Pinto |
Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780143029663 |
When King Charles Ii Of England Married Princess Catherine De Braganza Of Portugal In 1661, He Received As Part Of His Dowry The Isles Of Bom Bahia, The Good Bay. Reclaimed From The Sea, These Would Become The Modern City Of Bombay. A Marriage Of Affluence And Abject Poverty, Where A Grey Concrete Jungle Is The Backdrop To A Heady Potpourri Of Ethnic, Linguistic And Religious Subcultures, Bombay, Renamed Mumbai After The Goddess Mumbadevi, Defies Definition. Bombay, Meri Jaan, Comprising Poems And Prose Pieces By Some Of The Biggest Names In Literature, In Addition To Cartoons, Photographs, A Song And A Bombay Duck Recipe, Tries To Capture The Spirit Of This Great Metropolis. Salman Rushdie, Pico Iyer, Dilip Chitre, Saadat Hasan Manto, V.S. Naipaul, Khushwant Singh And Busybee, Among Others, Write About Aspects Of The City: The High-Rise Apartments And The Slums; Camaraderie And Isolation In The Crowded Chawls; Bhelpuri On The Beach And Cricket In The Gully; The Women'S Compartment Of A Local Train; Encounter Cops Who Battle The Underworld; The Jazz Culture Of The Sixties; The Monsoon Floods; The Shiv Sena; The Cinema Halls; The Sea. Vibrant, Engaging And Provocative, This Is An Anthology As Rich And Varied As The City It Celebrates.