The Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity: Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in Bombay City 1900-1925
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8125031642, 9788125031642
Length
xiv+246p., Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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This is an original story about the coming of 'modernity' in Bombay city in the early twentieth century.
In his account, Sandip Hazareesingh shows how this most global of forces had complex and contradictory meanings in the local urban settings of Colonial Bombay. A colonial technological version helped consolidate British Hegemony over this important Asian Port City; in contrast, Gandhi's rejection of the colonial urban helped define his search for a ...
