Masselos, Jim

The city in action: Bombay struggles for power/ Jim Masselos - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007. - viii, 414 p. ; 22 cm. - (Oxford collected essays) .

Pt. I. The city in a time of empire --
Power in the Bombay 'Mohalla', 1904-15 : an initial exploration into the world of the Indian urban Muslim --
Bombay in the 1870s : a study of changing patterns in urban politics --
Social segregation and crowd cohesion : reflections around some preliminary data from 19th century Bombay city --
The city as represented in crowd action : Bombay, 1893 --
The outside inside : incursions into the Marathi household at the end of the nineteenth century --
pt. II. The city in the time of Gandhian resistance --
Some aspects of Bombay city politics in 1919 --
Audiences, actors, and congress dramas : crowd events in Bombay city in 1930 --
Controlling the Prabhat Pheris --
Bombay, August 1942 : re-readings in a nationalist text --
Appropriating urban space : social constructs of Bombay in the time of the Raj --
pt. III. The city in the time of independence --
'The magic touch of being free' : the rituals of independence on 15 August --
India's republic day : the other 26th January --
Postmodern Bombay : fractured discourses.

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Politics and government--India--Mumbai

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