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Author Chhabria, Sheetal, author.

Title Making the modern slum : the power of capital in colonial Bombay / Sheetal Chhabria
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Global South Asia
Global South Asia.
Contents Introduction: Genealogies of the urban modern -- Land: Calculative rationales -- Famine: Localizing agrarian crises -- Shelter: Rendering housing technical -- Disease: From body to milieu -- Capital: A self-governing city -- Conclusion: Afterlives of city-making -- Epilogue: Movements and countermovements
Summary "The modern slum, a global phenomenon once considered an unfortunate but natural side effect of economic progress, now exemplifies failed development. How did Bombay (now called Mumbai) become the quintessential example of such failure? By 1880 Bombay was the most dense and second largest town in the British Empire, just behind London. Yet as laborers and migrants became excluded from what counted as the city, Bombay was beset by agricultural crises that caused recurring waves of famine and plague, justifying interventions that further stigmatized the poor. Grounded in an exploration of the changing political economy through the nineteenth and early twentieth century in land, labor, and housing, this book explores the agrarian origins of Bombay city, the mobility of migrants as they brought Bombay into their orbits, the emergence of housing as a commodity that both reflected and produced social life, and the way housing types were encoded as legitimate or illegitimate to make them legible for administration. It foregrounds the perspective of the laboring and urban poor and challenges assumptions about colonial cities and cities of the global south"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2012, titled Making the modern slum : housing, mobility, and poverty in Bombay and its peripheries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2019)
John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History, 2020
Subject Slums -- India -- Mumbai -- History
Urbanization -- India -- Mumbai -- History
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India -- Mumbai
Migrant labor -- India -- Mumbai -- History
Working class -- India -- Mumbai -- History
Capitalism -- India -- Mumbai -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Capitalism
Colonization
Economic history
Migrant labor
Slums
Urbanization
Working class
SUBJECT Mumbai (India) -- Economic conditions
Mumbai (India) -- Colonization
Subject India -- Mumbai
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019981424
ISBN 0295746297
9780295746296