Making the Modern Slum : The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay

Sheetal Chhabria

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Language: English

Published by University Of Washington Press Dez 2019, 2019

0295746289 / 9780295746289

Series: Book 19 of 22 - Global South Asia

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Neuware - In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. 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. Town planners, financiers, and property developers joined forces to secure the city as a space for commerce and encoded shelter types as legitimate or illegitimate. By the early twentieth century, the slum emerged as a particularly useful category of stigmatization that would animate city-making projects in subsequent decades.Sheetal Chhabria locates the origins of Bombay's now infamous 'slum problem' in the broader histories of colonialism and capitalism. She not only challenges assumptions about colonial urbanization and cities in the global south, but also provides a new analytical approach to urban history. Making the Modern Slum shows how the wellbeing of the city-rather than of its people-became an increasingly urgent goal of government, positioning agrarian distress, famished migrants, and the laboring poor as threats to be contained or excluded.…

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Making the Modern Slum : The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
Author
Sheetal Chhabria
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University Of Washington Press Dez 2019
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2019
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Language
English
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9780295746289
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Book 19 of 22: Global South Asia

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