ISBN:
9781452947105
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xxiv, 293 p.))
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:
Druckausg. Chopra, Preeti, 19XX - A joint enterprise
DDC:
720.95479209034
Keywords:
Architecture and society India
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Bombay
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History, 19th century
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Architecture and society India
;
Bombay
;
History, 20th century
;
Social ecology India
;
Bombay
;
Colonial cities India
;
Bombay
;
Architecture and society History 19th century
;
Architecture and society History 20th century
;
Colonial cities
;
Social ecology
;
Bombay (India) Buildings, structures, etc
;
Bombay (India) Social conditions
;
Architecture and society
;
India
;
Bombay
;
History
;
19th century
;
Architecture and society
;
India
;
Bombay
;
History
;
20th century
;
Social ecology
;
India
;
Bombay
;
Colonial cities
;
India
;
Bombay
;
Bombay (India)
;
Buildings, structures, etc
;
Bombay (India)
;
Social conditions
;
Bombay
;
Kolonialismus
;
Architektur
;
Geschichte 1854-1918
Abstract:
It was the era of the Raj, and yet the native communities had an unexpected role in the transformation of the urban fabric of British Bombay from 1854 to 1918. This book demonstrates how British Bombay was a collaboration of the colonial government and the Indian and European mercantile and industrial elite who shaped the city to serve their combined interests. It 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 labourers and craftsmen.
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