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The city and its fragments :Colonial Bombay, 1854--1918 (India)

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The city and its fragments :
Reminder of title:	Colonial Bombay, 1854--1918 (India)
Author:	Chopra, Preeti.
Description:	640 p.
Notes:	Chair: Dell Upton.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0316.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Architecture.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3121439
ISBN:	0496687905

The city and its fragments :Colonial Bombay, 1854--1918 (India)
Chopra, Preeti.

The city and its fragments :Colonial Bombay, 1854--1918 (India) [electronic resource] - 640 p.

Chair: Dell Upton.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

From the late 1860s there was an increased use of public spaces such as the Back Bay, the Esplanade, and Apollo Bundar by all racial and religious groups. The public believed that these spaces belonged to the entire public and no ethnic or religious group had a right to monopolize them or fragment this public domain. In these shared public spaces Indians glimpsed a promising future that could be theirs if they looked beyond divisions.

ISBN: 0496687905Subjects--Topical Terms:

208437
Architecture.

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520 # $a On Malabar Hill, where wealthy Indians and Europeans made their homes particularly after the 1880s, the Government House stood next door to the ancient Hindu village of Walkeshwar, while a Protestant church and gymkhana for Europeans were built in close proximity to the Parsi towers of silence.
520 # $a Rejecting the dualistic model of colonial cities, which depicts a segregated city in which the colonizers and the colonized lived in distinct worlds, I introduce the concept of "the city and its fragments," which allows us to see that the city is made up of many diverse parts. These fragments are intertwined in a public arena of shared institutions, spaces, and practices that represented the entire city. In Bombay, differences were subsumed to a sense of belonging and common ownership of public spaces.
520 # $a Since the 1860s the colonial government and wealthy native philanthropists founded public institutions. These institutions, where people of all castes, religions, and races shared the same spaces, were a new phenomenon in India. Focussing on hospitals and lunatic asylums, I show that European racial prejudices met their counterparts in Indian prejudices of ritual pollution. This resulted in a divided public realm where the colonial government and native philanthropists tried to create special provisions for their own communities.
520 # $a This dissertation explores the role of native communities in the physical transformation of Bombay, emphasizing the impact of modernization, cultural encounter, and social change, as well as the ways that the identities and power of local communities---economic, political, and cultural---contributed to the creation and transformation of social institutions and practices that shaped the urban spaces of Bombay, and were in turn reshaped by the city.
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