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.