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The colonial city and the challenge of modernity : urban hegemonies and civic contestations in Bombay city, 1900-1925

Print Book, English, 2007
Orient Longman, Hyderabad, India, 2007
History
xiii, 246 pages : map ; 23 cm.
9788125031642, 8125031642
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Introduction
Colonial modernism and the flawed paradigms of urban renewal
War, censorship and civic dissent: Bombay during the First World War
Urban confrontations: Gandhi, Horniman, and the material test of spiritual politics
The quest for urban citizenship: civic rights, public opinion and colonial resistance