Main entry:

Dossal, Mariam.

Title & Author:

Theatre of conflict, city of hope : Mumbai, 1660 to present times / Mariam Dossal.

Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Description:

xl, 252 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-245) and index.
Section I Agrarian Bombay C. 1660 -- 1860 Land Into Private Property-- A Precarious Presence: The British in Bombay, c. 1660-1720-- Defence Preoccupations and the Emerging Town c. 1720 -- 1780-- Customary Rights and State Regulations c. 1780-1810-- A Time for Change: Thomas Dickinson and the Bombay Revenue Survey, c. 1810-1830--Law and the Acquisition of Land for Public Purpose, c. 1830-1860--Section II : Industrial Bombay C. 1860 -- 2010 Changing Patterns Of Land Use--A Metropolis Takes Shape c. 1860-1890-- Urban Planning or Crises Management? c. 1890- 1930-- The Housing Conundrum and Bombay's Built Environment, c. 1930-1970, Chapter Nine: Megalopolis Mumbai.
Agrarian Bombay, c. 1660-1860: land into private property. The British in Bombay, c. 1660-1720: a precarious presence ; Defence preoccupations and the emerging town, c. 1720-1780 ; Customary rights and state regulations, c. 1780-1810 ; Thomas Dickinson and the Bombay revenue survey, c. 1810-30: a time for change ; Law and the acquisition of land for public purpose, c. 1830-60 -- Industrial Bombay, c. 1860 to present times: changing patterns of land use. A metropolis takes shape, c. 1860-90 ; Urban planning or crisis management? Bombay, c. 1890-1930 ; Bomaby's built environment and the housing conundrum, c. 1930-60 ; Bombay/Mumbai, 1950 to present times: confronting the challenges.

Summary:

This is the first volume to present such a comprehensive history of Bombay-from 1660s to the present times. Strongly grounded in primary sources and richly illustrated, it maps the radical transformation of Bombay from an agricultural settlement of little significance to a megalopolis. What had originally been seven 'islets' of fishing villages, coconut gardens, rice fields, salt-pans, and vegetable plots, had by the nineteenth century given way to chawls, warehouses, cotton mills, railway lines, and docks. In recent times shopping malls, skyscrapers and slums have become prominent in the urban landscape. The book discusses several other significant aspects concerned with land use and planning of the city-customary rights versus state regulations, revenue survey, land acquisition, agricultural and industrial growth, housing problems, development of the metropolis and problems confronting the city today.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780198064381
0198064381

Subject:

Land tenure India Mumbai.
Land use India Mumbai.
Utilisation du sol Inde Mumbai.
Land tenure.
Land use.
Mumbai (India) History.
India Mumbai.
Mumbai
Bombay.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275194
Call No.: BIB 209225
Status: Available