A01=Prashant Kidambi
associational culture Bombay
Author_Prashant Kidambi
Badruddin Tyabji
Behramji Malabari
bombay
Bombay (Mumbai)
Bombay Improvement Trust
Bombay Municipal Corporation
Bombay Presidency Association
British imperialism India
Calcutta (Kolkata)
Caste
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Cholera
Civil Society
Colonial Administration
Colonial Bombay
colonial urban governance
commissioner
corporation
Cotton
Cow Protection Society
Crime
crisis-driven urban transformation Bombay
Depressed Classes
Development
Din Bandhu
Disease
Doctor Street
Environment
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Finance
gazette
Gold
Hinduism
Improvement Trust
Indian civil society development
Indian Plague Commission
Islam
Modern Indian City
municipal
Municipal Commissioner
Nineteenth Century Bombay
Plague Policies
poor
prarthana
Prarthana Samaj
presidency
public health crises history
samaj
Settlement
Single Room Tenements
Slum Improvement
Smallpox
Social Service League
Suez Canal
Telegraphy
Trade
Unintended City
urban
Urban Poor
urban social history
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754656128
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. A series of crises in the 1890s triggered far-reaching changes in the relationship between state and society in Bombay. The city’s colonial rulers responded to the upheavals of this decade by adopting a more interventionist approach to urban governance. The book shows how these new strategies and mechanisms of rule ensnared colonial authorities in contradictions that they were unable to resolve easily and rendered their relationship with local society increasingly fractious. The study also explores important developments within an emergent Indian civil society. It charts the density and diversity of the city’s expanding associational culture and shows how educated Indians embraced a new ethic of ’social service’ that sought to ’improve’ and ’uplift’ the urban poor. In conclusion, the book reflects on the historical legacy of these developments for urban society and politics in postcolonial Bombay. 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.
Prashant Kidambi is Lecturer in Colonial Urban History in The School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, UK.
