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Making the Modern Slum
The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
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.
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Reviews
"[A] searing reminder of the long history of urban dependence on migrant labor in India."—Dissent
"Chhabria makes key contributions to our understanding of urban histories that are relevant not just for historians but for many who are interested in more contemporary urban planning issues."—South Asian History and Culture
"It is a forceful, passionate, and well-researched challenge to our assumption that cities predate urbanism, and its relevance extends well beyond the "limits" of Bombay."—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
"[I]nvaluable reading for scholars of South Asia and for anyone interested in "slums" in the Global South."—Journal of Asian Studies
Endorsements
"An extensive and wide-ranging analysis of the dynamics of urban change—a work of insight and originality."—Jim Masselos, honorary reader in history, University of Sydney
"This is a refreshingly original and challenging account of the exclusionary logic of colonial urbanization. The British not only controlled the production of space in Bombay; they also shaped an Orwellian discourse that disguised slum-making as housing reform. Highly recommended."—Mike Davis, author of "Sheetal Chhabria's bracing, meticulously researched monograph establishes, against received wisdom, that the slum is not peripheral to but constitutive of the city, the internal other against which the city proper is continually measured and refashioned. By carefully demonstrating how and where the forces of capitalism, the shifting policies of the state, and the resistances of various social strata come together and fall apart,
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