Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos

by Prashant Kidambi

'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190061707
• ISBN13: 9780190061708
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.7"