Drawing on a wealth of archival material in the Maharashtra State Archives, Bombay, and the India Office Library, this careful study analyzes the development of Bombay from a small port town into an important colonial port city between 1845 and 1875.  The growth was engineered by a group of British professionals who were wedded to the dominant British concerns of order, civic improvement, and the extension of imperial hegemony.  Focusing on the conflicts between the planners and administrators of this development, and between the British rulers and the Indian inhabitants who resisted this essentially European planning, this volume offers an incisive look at a crucial point in Indian urban history.

Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City, 1845-1875

History

DOSSAL, MARIAM

Asia

Oxford University Press

<p>This work analyzes the development of Bombay from a small port-town into an important colonial port-city between 1845 and 1875. It graphically captures the drama which went into the making of Bombay, looking behind the actual events to plans, resources, controversies, and opinions. This award-winning book contains 22 rare photographs as well as relevant maps and plans.</p>

Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City 1845-1875

<p>This is the first volume to present such a comprehensive history of Bombay-from 1660s to the present times. Strongly grounded in primary sources and richly illustrated, it maps the radical transformation of Bombay from an agricultural settlement of little significance to a megalopolis. What had originally been seven 'islets' of fishing villages, coconut gardens, rice fields, salt-pans, and vegetable plots, had by the nineteenth century given way to chawls, warehouses, cotton mills, railway lines, and docks. In recent times shopping malls, skyscrapers and slums have become prominent in the urban landscape. The book discusses several other significant aspects concerned with land use and planning of the city-customary rights versus state regulations, revenue survey, land acquisition, agricultural and industrial growth, housing problems, development of the metropolis and problems confronting the city today.</p>

Theatre of Conflict, City of Hope: Bombay/Mumbai, 1660 to Present Times

The garden's early history, planning, and design, which are of continuing relevance, are related here in interesting detail, along with tributes to its enduring legacy that has enriched the lives of people in the city over 150 years. A substantial chapter provides a tantalizing taste of the botanical wealth to be experienced in Rani Bagh, while another features the fascinating denizens of this rich habitat. With close to 221 illustrations, the book ends with an account of recent struggle to preserve the garden's unique natural and built heritage for future generations.

Rani Bagh 150 Years: Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan and Zoo

Science & Math

Sahgal, Bittu

Dilawari, Vikas

Almeida, Marselin R.

Bagli, Katie

Godrej, Pheroza J.

Rustomfram, Hutokshi

Nikharge, Shubhada

Biological Sciences

Papers presented at a conference organized by the Dept. of History, University of Bombay, in Feb. 1994.

State Intervention and Popular Response; Western India in the Nineteenth Century [Jan 01, 1999] Desai, A.R. and DOSSAL, MARIAM

Desai, A.R.

Popular Prakashan

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