Making the modern slum : the power of capital in colonial Bombay
Chhabria, Sheetal
Making the modern slum : the power of capital in colonial Bombay - Telangana Orient BlackSwan 2019 - xiv,235p.
Contents
Preface vii
Maps of Bombay and Environs xii
Introduction: Genealogies of the urban modern 3
1 Land : Calculative rationales 27
2 Famine : Localizing Agrarian Crises 56
3 Shelter : Rendering housing technical 84
4 Disease : From Body on Milieu 113
5 Capital : A self-governing city 141
Conclusion : Afterlives of city making 179
Epilogue : Movements and counter movements 185
Notes 197
Bibliography 213
Index 229
978-9352878840
Solar heating
Migrant labor
Slums
Urbanization
India--Mumbai
Agriculture--Economic aspects
Working class
Capitalism
Colonization
954.792 / CHH
Making the modern slum : the power of capital in colonial Bombay - Telangana Orient BlackSwan 2019 - xiv,235p.
Contents
Preface vii
Maps of Bombay and Environs xii
Introduction: Genealogies of the urban modern 3
1 Land : Calculative rationales 27
2 Famine : Localizing Agrarian Crises 56
3 Shelter : Rendering housing technical 84
4 Disease : From Body on Milieu 113
5 Capital : A self-governing city 141
Conclusion : Afterlives of city making 179
Epilogue : Movements and counter movements 185
Notes 197
Bibliography 213
Index 229
978-9352878840
Solar heating
Migrant labor
Slums
Urbanization
India--Mumbai
Agriculture--Economic aspects
Working class
Capitalism
Colonization
954.792 / CHH