A joint enterprise : Indian elites and the making of British Bombay /
It was the era of the Raj, and yet "A Joint Enterprise" reveals the unexpected role of native communities in the transformation of the urban fabric of British Bombay from 1854 to 1918. Preeti Chopra demonstrates how British Bombay was, surprisingly, a collaboration of the colonial governme...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
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Table of 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.
