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The Making of an Indian Metropolis - Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 (Paperback)
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The Making of an Indian Metropolis - Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 (Paperback)
Series: Historical Urban Studies Series
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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.
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