A Joint Enterprise : Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chopra, Preeti
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Social ecology
Colonial cities
Architecture and society
Buildings.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE > Regional.
Villes coloniales > Inde > Mumbai.
Écologie sociale > Inde > Mumbai.
Architecture et societe > Inde > Mumbai > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Architecture et societe > Inde > Mumbai > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Colonial cities > India > Mumbai.
Social ecology > India > Mumbai.
Architecture and society > India > Mumbai > History > 20th century.
Architecture and society > India > Mumbai > History > 19th century.
India > Mumbai
Mumbai (India) > Social conditions.
Mumbai (India) > Buildings, structures, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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