Chopra, Preeti.

A joint enterprise : Indian elites and the making of British Bombay / Indian elites and the making of British Bombay Preeti Chopra. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011. - xxiv, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.

Introduction -- A joint enterprise -- Anglo-Indian architecture and the meaning of its styles -- The biography of an unknown native engineer -- Dividing practices in Bombay's hospitals and lunatic asylums -- An unforeseen landscape of contradictions -- Of gods and mortal heroes : conundrums of the secular landscape of colonial Bombay.

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Architecture and society--History--India--Mumbai--19th century.
Architecture and society--History--India--Mumbai--20th century.
Social ecology--India--Mumbai.
Colonial cities--India--Mumbai.


Mumbai (India)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Mumbai (India)--Social conditions.

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