A joint enterprise : Indian elites and the making of British Bombay / Preeti Chopra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chopra, Preeti.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--India--Bombay--History--19th century.

Architecture and society.

Architecture and society--India--Bombay--History--20th century.

Social ecology--India--Bombay.

Social ecology.

Colonial cities--India--Bombay.

Colonial cities.

Bombay (India)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Bombay (India).

Bombay (India)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Indian elites and the making of British Bombay

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 co

Contents:

Introduction

A joint enterprise

Anglo-Indian architecture and the meaning of its styles

The biography of an unknown native engineer

Dividing practices in Bombay's hospitals and lunatic asylums

An unforeseen landscape of contradictions

Of gods and mortal heroes : conundrums of the secular landscape of colonial Bombay.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4710-4

0-8166-7687-9

OCLC:

733040282