000 03099 a2200157 4500
020 _a9781478011491
082 _a305.800952
_bBJO
100 _aBjorkman, Lisa Ed.
245 _aBombay brokers
260 _bDuke University Press
_aLondon
_c2021
300 _axii,2map,452p.
505 _aContents Acknowledgements ix Introduction Urban Ethnography in the Global Interregnum / Lisa Bjorkman 1 Part I Development / Rachel Sturman 47 1. Bunty Singh: Builder of Dreams / Lalitha Kamath 59 2. Imran: Housing Contractor / Tobias Baitsch 68 3. Dalpat: Manager of Services / Lisa Bjorkman 78 4. Mehmoodbhai: Toilet Operator / Prasad Khanolkar 87 5. Kaushal: Land Agglomerator / Llerena Guiu Searle 95 6. Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers / Uday Chandra 101 Part II Property / Lisa Bjorkman 109 7. Dr. K: Middle-Class Social-worker / Yaffa Truelove 121 8. Ashok Ravat: Shivaji Park's Sentinel / Lalit Vachani 128 9. Shazia: Proof Maker / Sangeeta Banerji 137 10. Nirmala: Kamathipura's Gatekeeper 145 Ratoola Kundu 11. Farhad: 'Sue Maker' / Leilah Vevaina 154 Part III Business / Tarini Bedi 163 12. Ramita: Surrogacy Agent / Daisy Deomampo 175 13. Muhammad: Revalorizer of e-waste / Aneri Taskar 182 14. Deepak: Making Mumbai (in China) / Ka-Kin Cheuk 191 15. Lubaina: Framing 'Development' / Lubaina Rangwala 199 16. Shankar: Delivering Authenticity / Ken Kuroda 208 17. Manal-Muna: Cooking up Value / Tarini Bedi 216 18. Ramji: Business Energizer / Lisa Bjorkman 224 Part IV Difference / Anjali Arondekar 233 19. Bhimsen Gaikwad: Singer of Justice / Shailaja Paik 243 20. Sultan: Image Manager / David Strohl 253 21. Raj: Carting Cosmopolitanism / Maura Finkelstein 262 22. Laxmi: Dealer in Emotion / R. Swaminathan 270 23. Dharmsey: Assembler of Tradition / Edward Simpson 278 24. Dalvi: Speaker of Cities / Gautam Pemmaraju 286 Part V Publics / Lisa Björkman and Michael Collins 297 25. Shashi: Dot Connector / Rohan Shivkumar 307 26. Anil Prakash: Amplifier of Cinema-Industrial Connection / Kathryn Hardy 315 27. Gauravpant Mishra: Crowd-Maker / Sarthak Bagchi 322 28. Srinivasan: Kingmaker / Simon Chauchard 329 29. Madhu: Door Opener / Bhushan Koregaonkar 337 30. Poornima: Designing Relations / Ajay Gandhi 347 Part VI Truth / Lisa Bjorkman 355 31. Rajani Pandit: Detector of Truths / Srimati Basu 367 32. Afzal Taximan: Rumour Navigator / Sahana Udupa 378 33. Pawan: Prison Master / Atreyee Sen 384 34. Sujit: Master Communicator / Annelies Kusters 391 35. Chadda: Report Maker / Prasad Shetty and Rupali Gupte 401 36. Prakash: Data Entrepreneur / Amita Bhide 405 Conclusion Other Places, Other Times 414 Lisa Mitchell Glossary 425 About the Contributors 437 Index 441
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650 _aSocial conditions
_aUrban anthropology
_aIndia--Mumbai
_aEthnology
650 _aIslamic architecture
650 _aIslamic decoration and ornament