Main entry:

Chopra, Preeti.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.

Description:

xxiv, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index.
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.

ISBN:

9780816670369 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816670366 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816670376 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816670374 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and society India Mumbai History 19th century.
Architecture and society India Mumbai History 20th century.
Social ecology India Mumbai.
Colonial cities India Mumbai.
Architecture et société Inde Mumbai Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture et société Inde Mumbai Histoire 20e siècle.
Écologie sociale Inde Mumbai.
Villes coloniales Inde Mumbai.
Architecture and society.
Buildings.
Colonial cities.
Social conditions.
Social ecology.
Mumbai (India) Buildings, structures, etc.
Mumbai (India) Social conditions.
India Mumbai.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272475
Call No.: BIB 205801
Status: Available