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BOMBAY BEFORE MUMBAI PRASHANT KIDAMBI MANJIRI KAMAT RACHEL DWYER (editors) Bombay before Mumbai Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos 3 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America © Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, Rachel Dwyer and the Contributors, 2019 First published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd All rights reserved. No part of Publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer A copy of this book’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on fi le with the Library of Congress. ISBN 9780190061708 Borah Bazaar, Bombay, India, c. 1935 Dr. Jim Masselos City of Gold, Urbs Prima in Indis, Maximum City: no Indian metropolis has cap- tivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writings on the city that was once Bombay. This book, featuring new essays by its finest historians, presents a rich sample of Bombay’s palimpsestic pasts. It considers the making of urban communities and spaces, the workings of power and the nationalist makeover of the colo- nial city. In addressing these themes, the contributors to the volume engage critically with the scholarship of a distinguished historian of this frenetic metropolis. For over five decades, Jim Masselos has brought to life with skill and empathy Bombay’s hidden histories. His books and essays have traversed an extraordi- narily diverse range of subjects, from the doings of the city’s elites to the struggles of its most humble denizens. His pioneering research has opened up new perspectives and inspired those who have followed in his wake. Bombay before Mumbai is a fitting tribute to Masselos’s enduring contribution to South Asian urban history.
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