Govind Narayan's Mumbai

Murali Ranganathan

Description

The first ever book on Mumbai written in the Marathi language, this is a historically fascinating and revealing urban biography of nineteenth-century India.

Guiding the reader on a tour of the sights and sounds of an emerging city struggling to shake off colonialism and wrestling with the formation of its own budding identity, Narayan’s beguiling book offers descriptions of Mumbai’s daily life, its people and its institutions: the parts of the whole that come together to create this diverse and vivacious place. This valuable text is a rare and enthralling glimpse into a fascinating period and place otherwise lost to time.

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Gyan Prakash; Introduction; Govind Narayan: A Preliminary Bio-Bibliography; Govind Narayan’s Mumbai; Notes to the Text; Biographical Index of Mumbai Men of the Nineteenth Century; Descriptive Index of Mumbai Institutions of the Nineteenth Century; Bibliography; Glossary; Index; Map

Informations

• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780857286895
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 41 Mo

Extrait

Anthem Press An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company www.anthempress.com

This edition first published in UK and USA 2009 by ANTHEM PRESS

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Translation © Murali Ranganathan 2009 Foreword © Gyan Prakash 2009 The moral right of the authors has been asserted.

All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested.

With thanks to the DeGoyler Library at Southern Methodist University for the use of the images in this volume.

Map courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society.

ISBN10: 1 84331 305 7 (Pbk) ISBN13: 978 1 84331 305 2 (Pbk)

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