Bombay Modern

Author : Anjali Nerlekar
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810132757

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Bombay Modern by Anjali Nerlekar Pdf

Anjali Nerlekar's Bombay Modern is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of both Indian literary modernist studies and postcolonial Indian studies. Nerlekar shows how a bilingual, materialist reading of Kolatkar's texts uncovers a uniquely resistant sense of the "local" that defies the monolinguistic cultural pressures of the post-1960 years and straddles the boundaries of English and Marathi writing. Bombay Modern uncovers an alternative and provincial modernism through poetry, a genre that is marginal to postcolonial studies, and through bilingual scholarship across English and Marathi texts, a methodology that is currently peripheral at best to both modernist studies and postcolonial literary criticism in India. Eschewing any attempt to define an overarching or universal modernism, Bombay Modern delimits its sphere of study to "Bombay" and to the "post-1960" (the sathottari period) in an attempt to examine at close range the specific way in which this poetry redeployed the regional, the national, and the international to create a very tangible yet transient local.

Author : Niloufer Ichaporia King
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-18
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520249608

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My Bombay Kitchen by Niloufer Ichaporia King Pdf

The first book published in the United States on Parsi food written by a Parsi, this beautiful volume includes 165 recipes and makes one of India's most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. In an intimate narrative rich with personal experience, the author leads readers into a world of new ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques.

Author : Juned Shaikh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295748511

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Outcaste Bombay by Juned Shaikh Pdf

Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with aspects of modern life, including the Marxist discourse of class, caste distinctions played a pivotal role in determining who was excluded from the city’s economic transformations. Labor historian Juned Shaikh documents the symbiosis between industrial capitalism and the caste system, mapping the transformation of the city as urban planners marked Dalit neighborhoods as slums that needed to be demolished in order to build a modern Bombay. Drawing from rare sources written by the urban poor and Dalits in the Marathi language—including novels, poems, and manifestos—Outcaste Bombay examines how language and literature became a battleground for cultural politics. Through careful scrutiny of one city’s complex social fabric, this study illuminates issues that remain vital for labor activists and urban planners around the world.

Author : Sujata Patel,Alice Thorner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028913676

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Bombay by Sujata Patel,Alice Thorner Pdf

A broad inter-disciplinary approach to present day conditions in Bombay. Chapters on the local economy and Bombay as part of the new global economy, on labour, land-use, housing, slums, health, municipal politics, the Shiv Sena, and the riots of December 1992 and January 1993 are included in this volume.

Author : Amisha Dodhia Gurbani
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781682686287

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Mumbai Modern by Amisha Dodhia Gurbani Pdf

Discover a world of spice and color in this celebration of Indian cuisine made for the American kitchen. Indian cooks are masters of flavor. Enjoyed and revered worldwide, the best Indian food offers comfort, wonder, and beauty. In Mumbai Modern, Amisha Dodhia Gurbani delivers a marriage of traditional Gujarati cuisine, Mumbai street food, and modern innovation inspired by the bountiful fresh ingredients on offer in her adopted home of California. Mumbai Modern offers more than 100 vegetarian recipes, complete with Gurbani’s stunning photographs, including breakfasts (Pear and Chai Masala Cinnamon Rolls); appetizers and salads (Dahi Papdi Chaat); mains (Ultimate Mumbai-California Veggie Burger); bread (Wild Mushroom and Green Garlic Kulcha), rice, and snacks (Cornflakes Chevdo); sauces, dips, and jams (Blood Orange and Rosemary Marmalade); desserts (Masala Chai Tiramisu with Rose Mascarpone, Whipped Cream, and Pistachio Sprinkle); and drinks (Nectarine, Star Anise, and Ginger Shrub). Alongside family stories, history, culture and more, this vibrant cookbook is a triumph of Indian-American culinary brilliance.

Author : Prashant Kidambi,Manjiri Kamat,Rachel Dwyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190061708

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Bombay Before Mumbai by Prashant Kidambi,Manjiri Kamat,Rachel Dwyer Pdf

'City of Gold', 'Urbs Prima in Indis', 'Maximum City': no Indian metropolis has captivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writing 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 colonial city. In addressing these themes, the contributors to this 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 extraordinarily diverse range of subjects, from the actions 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' enduring contribution to South Asian urban history

Author : Debashree Mukherjee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231551670

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Bombay Hustle by Debashree Mukherjee Pdf

From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing new insights to studies of media, modernity, and the late colonial city. Drawing on original archival research and an innovative transdisciplinary approach, Debashree Mukherjee offers a panoramic portrait of the consolidation of the Bombay film industry during the talkie transition of the 1920s–1940s. In the decades leading up to independence in 1947, Bombay became synonymous with marketplace thrills, industrial strikes, and modernist experimentation. Its burgeoning film industry embodied Bombay’s spirit of “hustle,” gathering together and spewing out the many different energies and emotions that characterized the city. Bombay Hustle examines diverse sites of film production—finance, pre-production paperwork, casting, screenwriting, acting, stunts—to show how speculative excitement jostled against desires for scientific management in an industry premised on the struggle between contingency and control. Mukherjee develops the concept of a “cine-ecology” in order to examine the bodies, technologies, and environments that collectively shaped the production and circulation of cinematic meaning in this time. The book thus brings into view a range of marginalized film workers, their labor and experiences; forgotten film studios, their technical practices and aesthetic visions; and overlooked connections among media practices, geographical particularities, and historical exigencies.

Author : Shaʼul Sapir
Publisher : Bene Israel Heritage Museum and Geneological Research Centre
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 8192072134

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Bombay by Shaʼul Sapir Pdf

Dr. Sapir draws upon extensive research, to tell the captivating story of the Baghdadi Jewish Community in Bombay and their unique contribution to the urban landscape of the city during the latter period of the British Raj.

Author : Saadat Hasan Manto
Publisher : Random House
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448162369

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Bombay Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto Pdf

A rebellious yet human portrait of India's bustling Bombay, as told by one of the greatest Urdu writers of the last century: Saadat Hasan Manto. 'The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story' Salman Rushdie, Observer In the 1930s and 40s, Bombay was the cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent - an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless degradation. It was also muse to the celebrated short story writer of India and Pakistan, Saadat Hasan Manto. Manto's hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling and provocative. In searching out those forgotten by humanity - prostitutes, conmen and crooks - Manto wrote about what it means to be human.

Author : Prashant Kidambi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351886246

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The Making of an Indian Metropolis by Prashant Kidambi Pdf

This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a variety of archival sources, the book offers a systematic analytical account of historical change in a premier colonial city. In particular, it considers the ways in which the turbulent changes unleashed by European modernity were negotiated, appropriated or resisted by the colonised in one of the major cities of the Indian Ocean region. A series of crises in the 1890s triggered far-reaching changes in the relationship between state and society in Bombay. The city’s colonial rulers responded to the upheavals of this decade by adopting a more interventionist approach to urban governance. The book shows how these new strategies and mechanisms of rule ensnared colonial authorities in contradictions that they were unable to resolve easily and rendered their relationship with local society increasingly fractious. The study also explores important developments within an emergent Indian civil society. It charts the density and diversity of the city’s expanding associational culture and shows how educated Indians embraced a new ethic of ’social service’ that sought to ’improve’ and ’uplift’ the urban poor. In conclusion, the book reflects on the historical legacy of these developments for urban society and politics in postcolonial Bombay. This wide-ranging work will be essential reading for specialists in British imperial history, postcolonial studies and urban social history. It will also be of interest to all those concerned with the comparative history of governance and public culture in the modern city.

Author : Thrity Umrigar
Publisher : Picador
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429936897

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Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar Pdf

Bestselling author Thrity Umrigar's deeply felt first novel set in modern India, Bombay Time. At the wedding of a young man from a middle-class apartment building in Bombay, the men and women of this unique community gather together and look back on their youthful, idealistic selves and consider the changes the years have wrought. The lives of the Parsi men and women who grew up together in Wadi Baug are revealed in all their complicated humanity: Adi Patel's disintegration into alcoholism; Dosamai's gossiping tongue; and Soli Contractor's betrayal and heartbreak. And observing it all is Rusi Bilimoria, a disillusioned businessman who struggles to make sense of his life and hold together a fraying community.

Author : Chandra Vikram,Chandra,Vikram
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Mumbai (India)
ISBN : 0143414178

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Love And Longing In Bombay (R/E) by Chandra Vikram,Chandra,Vikram Pdf

A collection of stories set in contemporary India. In Dharma, a soldier is forced to amputate his leg in order to save his life, Shakti is on two feuding society women, and Kama is on a detective who discovers political corruption at the highest level.

Author : Navin Ramani
Publisher : Antique Collector's Club
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015064985735

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Bombay Art Deco Architecture by Navin Ramani Pdf

-A photographic study of one of Bombay's most interesting districts -A useful visual reference for any architecture student interested in Art Deco, twentieth century style shifts, or the Indian subcontinent Bombay Art Deco Architecture presents a treasury of Art Deco buildings comprising residential, commercial and civic architecture. These monuments were created during the mid '30s and '40s, a glamorous and optimistic era that predated the official end of the British Raj. The architects, a small list of first-generation Indian architects and builders, were mostly educated in English schools and trained in western architectural traditions. Impatient with the British reluctance to shed the Gothic and Indo-Saracenic architectural styles that had dominated Imperial Bombay's urban landscape, these visionaries were determined to imbue the city with a new modern style. That style shares its provenance with the Art Deco architecture of Miami Beach, termed 'Tropical Deco' by author Laura Cerwinske in her seminal 1981 book. Built in the same era, the Art Deco architecture of the two cities exhibits similar scale, geometry, tropical vocabulary, and love of romance.

Author : Prashant Kidambi,Manjiri Kamat,Rachel Dwyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197507179

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Bombay Before Mumbai by Prashant Kidambi,Manjiri Kamat,Rachel Dwyer Pdf

'City of Gold', 'Urbs Prima in Indis', 'Maximum City': no Indian metropolis has captivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writing 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 colonial city. In addressing these themes, the contributors to this 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 extraordinarily diverse range of subjects, from the actions 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' enduring contribution to South Asian urban history

Author : Ranjani Mazumdar
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 1452913021

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Bombay Cinema by Ranjani Mazumdar Pdf