Making the modern slum : the power of capital in colonial Bombay / Sheetal Chhabria.
By: Chhabria, Sheetal.
Contributor(s): Kaimal, Padma [series editor] | Sivaramakrishnan, K [series editor] | Yang, Anand A [series editor].
Series: Global South Asia. Language: eng.Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2019Description: xi, 235 p. : b&w ill.., 5 maps, 4 tables ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780295746272.Subject(s): Slums -- India -- Mumbai -- History | Urbanization -- India -- Mumbai -- History | Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India -- Mumbai | Migrant labor -- India -- Mumbai -- History | Working class -- India -- Mumbai -- History | Capitalism -- India -- Mumbai -- History | Mumbai (India) -- Economic conditions | Mumbai (India) -- Colonization | India -- MumbaiDDC classification: 954.7923 Summary: 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.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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