| Description |
xxiv, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A joint enterprise -- Anglo-Indian architecture and the meaning of its styles -- The biography of an unknown native engineer -- Dividing practices in Bombay's hospitals and lunatic asylums -- An unforeseen landscape of contradictions -- Of gods and mortal heroes : conundrums of the secular landscape of colonial Bombay |
| Summary |
Colonial cities are often thought to singularly reflect the visions and needs of the colonial regimes that rule over them, but in this reconstruction of the transformation of the physical urbanity of Bombay (now Mumbai) from 1854 to 1918, Chopra seeks to demonstrate that indigenous actors often played a major role in shaping urban design and form. British Bombay was a "joint enterprise" of colonial rulers and Indian and European mercantile and industrial elites seeking to shape the city to serve their interests, European and Indian collaborations in engineering and architecture, the influence of the Indian laborers and craftsmen who did the physical building, and joint financing by the colonial government and Indian philanthropists |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Architecture and society -- India -- Mumbai -- History -- 19th century.
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Architecture and society -- India -- Mumbai -- History -- 20th century.
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Colonial cities -- India -- Mumbai.
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Social ecology -- India -- Mumbai.
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| SUBJECT |
Mumbai (India) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012073713 -- Buildings, structures, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004820
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Mumbai (India) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012073713 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
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| Author |
ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
2010047979 |
| ISBN |
0816670366 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0816670374 (pb : alk. paper) |
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9780816670369 (hc : alk. paper) |
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9780816670376 (pb : alk. paper) |
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