Making the modern slum: the power of capital in colonial bombay
Auteur :
Chhabria, Sheetal
Éditeur :
University of Washington Press
ISBN :
9780295746272
Date de publication :
6 déc. 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
363 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it.