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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400835942
035 _a(DE-B1597)453723
035 _a(OCoLC)979623877
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aPrakash, Gyan
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMumbai Fables /
_cGyan Prakash.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource (408 p.) :
_b16 color illus. 36 line illus.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tPLATES --
_t1. THE MYTHIC CITY --
_t2. THE COLONIAL GOTHIC --
_t3. THE CITY ON THE SEA --
_t4. THE COSMOPOLIS AND THE NATION --
_t5. THE TABLOID AND THE CITY --
_t6. FROM RED TO SAFFRON --
_t7. PLANNING AND DREAMING --
_t8. AVENGER ON THE STREET --
_t9. DREAMWORLDS --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aA 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--the history behind Mumbai's stories of opportunity and oppression, of fabulous wealth and grinding poverty, of cosmopolitan desires and nativist energies. 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
650 0 _aBombay (India)
_vBiography.
650 0 _aBombay (India)
_vCivilization.
650 0 _aBombay (India)
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400835942
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400835942
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