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Mumbai fables
\"A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires and ambitions. Mumbai Fables explores the mythic inner life of this legendary city as seen by its inhabitants, journalists, planners, writers, artists, filmmakers, and political activists. In this remarkable cultural history of one of the world's most important urban centers, Gyan Prakash unearths the stories behind its fabulous history, viewing Mumbai through its turning points and kaleidoscopic ideas, comic book heroes, and famous scandals. Starting from the catastrophic floods and terrorist attacks of recent years, Prakash reaches back to the sixteenth-century Portuguese conquest to reveal the stories behind Mumbai's historic journey. Examining Mumbai's role as a symbol of opportunity and reinvention, he looks at its nineteenth-century development under British rule and its twentieth-century emergence as a fabled city on the sea. Different layers of urban experience come to light as he recounts the narratives of the Nanavati murder trial and the rise and fall of the tabloid Blitz, and Mumbai's transformation from the red city of trade unions and communists into the saffron city of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena. Starry-eyed planners and elite visionaries, cynical leaders and violent politicians of the street, land sharks and underworld dons jostle with ordinary citizens and poor immigrants as the city copes with the dashed dreams of postcolonial urban life and lurches into the seductions of globalization. Shedding light on the city's past and present, Mumbai Fables offers an unparalleled look at this extraordinary metropolis\"--P. [2-3] of dust jacket.
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India, modernity and the great divergence : Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.)
This book examines the reasons behind the Great Divergence. Kaveh Yazdani analyzes India's socio-economic, techno-scientific, military, political and institutional developments. The focus is on Gujarat between the 17th and early 19th centuries and Mysore during the second half of the 18th century.
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Rise of Reason
This book offers one of the first critical evaluations and in-depth analysis of the intellectual movement in Maharashtra in the 19th century. Arguing against the prevalent view that Indian rationality was imported from Europe through the colonial agency, it traces the rational roots of the movement to indigenous intellectual traditions and history. It also questions the centrality assigned to the 'Bengal Renaissance' as being the representative of the contemporary intellectual movement in the country.
Strongly grounded in primary research, this volume brings forth many new facts and facets into the scholarly discourse on topics such as the idea of 'Drain' and the rise of Indian nationalism, so far seen as a predominantly political process divorced from its cultural dimensions. It re-examines the view that cultural consciousness that preceded political agitation was a separate sphere of activity and suggests that both were integral stages of anti-colonialism in the country. The author maintains that rationalism and nationalism were closely connected as a means-and-end continuum. He also provides a new and substantially different understanding of the 19th-century intellectuals Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Pandita Ramabai among others.
Lucid, accessible and thought provoking, this book will interest scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, Indian political thought, sociology, philosophy and Marathi literature.
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Loft living–Bombay calling: culture, work and everyday life on post-industrial Tyneside; a joint polemic
Byrne and Wharton provide a more critical view of the official cultural developments in Newcastle-Gateshead. They argue that these schemes undervalue traditional working-class culture, and signal a lack of real cultural diversity.
Journal Article
Missions on the British Model
In 1810, several seminary students sent letters to the directors of the London Missionary Society expressing their “passion for missions” and asking if they might be received as missionaries for the society.¹ This might not have been news had these students been from somewhere in Britain. Instead, they were from Andover, Massachusetts. At the same time as they reached out to London, these students asked American ministers to form a missionary society within their own country that might send out missionaries into the world. From these two requests, in London and in Massachusetts, the early American foreign mission movement took
Book Chapter
Tear Up the Maps: India's Cities Shed Colonial Names
\"What is the city formerly known as Bangalore: Bengaluru. Or perhaps Bengalooru.\" (Christian Science Monitor) Learn how India is expressing an \"unprecedented self-assurance\" by abandoning the colonial designations of its major cities in favor of more historically and culturally accurate names.
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