Author: Suketu Mehta
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307574318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
Maximum City
Author: Suketu Mehta
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307574318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307574318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
Finding Bombay
Author: Zubin Kolah
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999128503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Indian Cookbook
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ISBN: 9780999128503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Indian Cookbook
Mumbai / Bombay
Author: Sujata Patel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000595005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Mumbai / Bombay is a quintessential urban expression which represents the questions and puzzles related to Indian urbanity. This book traces the various ways through which majoritarianism and neoliberal capitalist accumulation has reorganised Bombay or Mumbai in India. The book assesses Mumbai’s present trajectories and processes as being embedded in its recent past. It looks at these changes by exploring work and labour; health and education; spatial planning and infrastructural development; politics and identity; and shows how financialisation, land speculation, deregulation, and informality have impacted the city’s culture and everyday living. The contributors to this volume analyse the consequences of these changes for women and men across ages, as they live their material and cultural lives; evaluate the role of the changing nature of work, urban infrastructure, and planning; determine its outcome for public health and education; and take a measure of its manifestation in the field of arts and culture. The volume explores the processes that reorient these changes, the socio-spatial and political implications of these on the inhabitants of the city, and the resistance and response to marginalisation. This interdisciplinary volume will interest students and researchers of economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, public policy, development studies, and urban studies. It will also be useful to urban practitioners, planners, bureaucrats, activists, and general readers.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000595005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Mumbai / Bombay is a quintessential urban expression which represents the questions and puzzles related to Indian urbanity. This book traces the various ways through which majoritarianism and neoliberal capitalist accumulation has reorganised Bombay or Mumbai in India. The book assesses Mumbai’s present trajectories and processes as being embedded in its recent past. It looks at these changes by exploring work and labour; health and education; spatial planning and infrastructural development; politics and identity; and shows how financialisation, land speculation, deregulation, and informality have impacted the city’s culture and everyday living. The contributors to this volume analyse the consequences of these changes for women and men across ages, as they live their material and cultural lives; evaluate the role of the changing nature of work, urban infrastructure, and planning; determine its outcome for public health and education; and take a measure of its manifestation in the field of arts and culture. The volume explores the processes that reorient these changes, the socio-spatial and political implications of these on the inhabitants of the city, and the resistance and response to marginalisation. This interdisciplinary volume will interest students and researchers of economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, public policy, development studies, and urban studies. It will also be useful to urban practitioners, planners, bureaucrats, activists, and general readers.
Meet Me in Bombay
Author: Jenny Ashcroft
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250270278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is. Jenny Ashcroft's "Meet Me in Bombay is a powerful, poignant and deeply emotional tale of love, mystery, loss and joy." –Kate Furnivall, New York Times bestselling author It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright, new to the sweltering heat of colonial India, is yearning for all she has left behind in England. Then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as the year changes so do both their lives. Bold and charismatic, Luke opens her eyes to the wonders of Bombay, while Maddy's beauty and vivacity captures his heart. Only her mother disapproves, preferring the devoted Guy Bowen as a match for her daughter. But while Maddy and Luke are falling in love, the world is falling apart. World War I is on the horizon, and Luke will be given no choice but to fight. They will be continents apart, separated by danger and devastating loss, but bound by Luke's promise that they will meet again in Bombay.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250270278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is. Jenny Ashcroft's "Meet Me in Bombay is a powerful, poignant and deeply emotional tale of love, mystery, loss and joy." –Kate Furnivall, New York Times bestselling author It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright, new to the sweltering heat of colonial India, is yearning for all she has left behind in England. Then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as the year changes so do both their lives. Bold and charismatic, Luke opens her eyes to the wonders of Bombay, while Maddy's beauty and vivacity captures his heart. Only her mother disapproves, preferring the devoted Guy Bowen as a match for her daughter. But while Maddy and Luke are falling in love, the world is falling apart. World War I is on the horizon, and Luke will be given no choice but to fight. They will be continents apart, separated by danger and devastating loss, but bound by Luke's promise that they will meet again in Bombay.
Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Indian Law Journal
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ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1604
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1604
Book Description
Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The English Factories in India, 1665-1667
Author: William Foster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Bombay--London--New York
Author: Amitava Kumar
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415942119
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415942119
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.