Making the modern slum : the power of capital in colonial Bombay
Chhabria, Sheetal
Making the modern slum : the power of capital in colonial Bombay - Hyderabad Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd. 2019 - xi,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 to Milieu 113
5. Capital: A Self-Governing City 141
Conclusion: Afterlives of City Making 179
Epilogue: Movements and Countermovements 185
Notes 197
Bibliography 213
Index 229
9789352878840
954.792 / CHH
Making the modern slum : the power of capital in colonial Bombay - Hyderabad Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd. 2019 - xi,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 to Milieu 113
5. Capital: A Self-Governing City 141
Conclusion: Afterlives of City Making 179
Epilogue: Movements and Countermovements 185
Notes 197
Bibliography 213
Index 229
9789352878840
954.792 / CHH