ISBN:
9780816676873
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 293 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Rao, Nikhil Preeti CHOPRA, A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xxiv + 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8166-7036-9 (hbk.); 978-0-8166-7036-9 (pbk.). 82.50 (hbk.) / 27.50 (pbk.) 2013
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Chopra, Preeti, 19XX - A joint enterprise
DDC:
720.9
Keywords:
Electronic trading of securities
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Investment analysis
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Portfolio management
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Architecture and society ; India ; Bombay ; History ; 19th century
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Architecture and society ; India ; Bombay ; History ; 20th century
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Bombay (India) ; Buildings, structures, etc
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Bombay (India) ; Social conditions
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Colonial cities ; India ; Bombay
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Social ecology ; India ; Bombay
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Electronic books
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Architecture and society
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India
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Bombay
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History
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19th century
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Architecture and society
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India
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Bombay
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History
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20th century
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Social ecology
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India
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Bombay
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Colonial cities
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India
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Bombay
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Bombay (India)
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Buildings, structures, etc
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Bombay (India)
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Social conditions
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Bombay
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Kolonialismus
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Architektur
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Geschichte 1854-1918
Abstract:
It was the era of the Raj, and yet "A Joint Enterprise" reveals the unexpected role of native communities in the transformation of the urban fabric of British Bombay from 1854 to 1918. Preeti Chopra demonstrates how British Bombay was, surprisingly, a collaboration of the colonial government and the Indian and European mercantile and industrial elite who shaped the city to serve their combined interests. Chopra shows how the European and Indian engineers, architects, and artists worked with each other to design a city--its infrastructure, architecture, public sculpture--that was literally constructed by Indian laborers and craftsmen. Beyond the built environment, Indian philanthropists entered into partnerships with the colonial regime to found and finance institutions for the general public. Too often thought to be the product of the singular vision of a founding colonial regime, British Bombay is revealed by Chopra as an expression of native traditions meshing in complex ways with European ideas of urban planning and progress. The result, she argues, was the creation of a new shared landscape for Bombay's citizens that ensured that neither the colonial government nor the native elite could entirely control the city's future.
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