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A joint enterprise Indian elites and the making of British Bombay

Title: A joint enterprise [electronic resource] : Indian elites and the making of British Bombay / Preeti Chopra.
Author: Chopra, Preeti.
Publication: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

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Description

1 online resource (xxiv, 293 p.) : ill., maps.

Uniform Title

Joint enterprise (Online)

Alternative Title

Joint enterprise (Online)
Indian elites and the making of British Bombay

Subject

Architecture and society > India > Mumbai > History > 19th century
Architecture and society > India > Mumbai > History > 20th century
Social ecology > India > Mumbai
Colonial cities > India > Mumbai
Mumbai (India) > Buildings, structures, etc
Mumbai (India) > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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