TY  - BOOK
AU  - NIL
AU  - Prashant Kidambi (ed.)
TI  - BOMBAY BEFORE MUMBAI : Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos
SN  - 9780670093496
U1  - 954.792 
PY  - 2019////01/01
CY  - USA
PB  - Viking
KW  - India--Mumbai
KW  - Masselos, Jim, 1940-
KW  - India
KW  - Bombay- India
N1  - City of Gold', 'Urbs Prima in Indis', 'Maximum City': no Indian metropolis has captivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writing on the city that was once Bombay. This book, featuring new essays by its finest historians, presents a rich sample of Bombay's palimpsestic pasts. It considers the making of urban communities and spaces, the workings of power and the nationalist makeover of the colonial city. In addressing these themes, the contributors to this volume engage critically with the scholarship of a distinguished historian of this frenetic metropolis. For over five decades, Jim Masselos has brought to life with skill and empathy Bombay's hidden histories. His books and essays have traversed an extraordinarily diverse range
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