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Shivaji's Army and Other “Natives” In Bombay
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 114–122.
Published: 01 August 1996
... Modern Marathi Dalit Literature (Bombay: Orient Longman). Gupta , Dipankar , 1982 . Nativism in a Metropolis: Shiv Sena in Bombay (New Delhi: Manohar Publications). Gupta , Dipankar 1996 . “Religio-Nationalism: Dissensions within the BJP,” Times of India , September 6...
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Savitri: Portrait of a Bombay Working Class Woman
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (1): 2–9.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Cynthia Holton 1981 ∗ Cynthia Holton is a graduate student in Indian History at U.C.L.A. and the paper is based on interviews she conducted while on field research in India SAVITRI: Portrait of a Bombay Working Class Woma n...
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in Monumentality and Its Discontents: Photography and Hydraulic Engineering in Colonial India
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Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 3. Bombay Port Trust, Victoria Dock Extension Works , February 21, 1888, probably by E. Taurines and Co., British Library, photo 173/(63), Bridgeman Images.
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1690 map of Bombay and Salsette. Sam Thornton, hydrographer, East India Com...
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Figure 1. 1690 map of Bombay and Salsette. Sam Thornton, hydrographer, East India Company. Note the fishing stakes visible at the mouth of the harbor, above Bombay and below Coronja/Karanja village. Map accessible at https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-543499 .
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Rebellion, Dacoity, and Equality: The Emergence of the Constitutional Field in Postcolonial India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 260–278.
Published: 01 August 2014
... the relationship between the citizen and the state and emerged as a new field of practice. It does so by mapping the growth of judicial review of executive action through a series of similar challenges under Articles 32 and 226. Examining the trial of rebels and malcontents in Bengal, Hyderabad, Bombay...
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Young Protest: The Idea of Merit in Commercial Hindi Cinema
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 119–132.
Published: 01 May 2010
... with how the YFE class goes about adjusting to the new playing field of cultural politics. Finally, it tries to place the role of education and student politics in a broad historical perspective, exposing the links of the contemporary public sphere to a more privatized and subterranean location in Bombay...
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Speculation
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 2020
... within the scholarship on the development of architectural and town-planning theories during the early decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on Calcutta and Bombay—two central cities of the British Empire—as case studies, I will trace the history of how the housing market became a tradeable object...
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Alternative Kingdoms: Shrines and Sovereignty in Jaora
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 444–453.
Published: 01 December 2020
... communities. Unencumbered by accountability to Sufi lineages, Husain Tekri was—and remains—an ideal site for Jaora's nawabs to assert sovereignty. In the colonial period, the hybrid nature of Husain Tekri facilitated the development of a mutually beneficial exchange between members of Bombay's Khoja community...
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Vighnaharta Shree Siddhivinayak: Ganesh, Remover of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings in Mumbai
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2015
... temple built during the period when the name of the city, Bombay, was changed to the local version of the city's name, said to derive from the goddess Mumba Devi. The article looks at a devotional film about Siddhivinayak, produced in cooperation with the shrine, to see how Ganesh is understood today...
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Early Industrial Entreprenuers: The Bhatias
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (2): 20–26.
Published: 01 August 1981
...: Politics and Communities in Bombay City 1840–1885 Oxford:. Oxford University Press. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency 1880 Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha Gazetteer , Bombay: Government Central Press. Kling , Blair 1966 “The Origins of the Managing Agency System in India” Journal...
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Structures of Power: Electrification in Colonial India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 454–475.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... A. Natesan and Co. , 1906 . Cooper A. T. “ Recent Electrical Progress in India .” Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 77 , no. 3994 ( 1929 ): 739 – 65 . Dickinson Alfred . “ The Bombay Hydro-electric Scheme .” Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 53 , no. 248...
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Shiv Sena Protector of Hinduism or Menace to Minorities
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 70–74.
Published: 01 August 1988
... as well. However, in its first phase,
Bombay press is very eager to build up the image of its chief communalism seemed to have been subsumed under regional
Bal Thackeray. Newspapers and magazines vie with each chauvinism. However, it tended to emerge as communal at
other to project his views...
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A Note on Tulsi Parab, the Writer and the Man
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 500–502.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Wandana Sonalkar Sonalkar's piece is a tribute to the late poet Tulsi Parab and serves as an introduction to the English translations of four of Parab's poems. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Tulsi Parab poetry Marathi Bombay leftist...
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Eviscerating the Sea
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 1. 1690 map of Bombay and Salsette. Sam Thornton, hydrographer, East India Company. Note the fishing stakes visible at the mouth of the harbor, above Bombay and below Coronja/Karanja village. Map accessible at https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-543499 . ...
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Persian Architectural Revivals in the British Raj and Qajar Iran
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 384–397.
Published: 01 December 2016
... . “Manekji Limji Hataria in Iran.” In K. R. Cama Oriental Institute Golden Jubilee Volume , 19 – 31 . Bombay : K. R. Cama Institute , 1969 . ———. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices . 2nd ed. London : Routledge , 2001 . Browne Edward G. Materials for the Study...
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The Question of Famines: A Critical Analysis of the McAlpin Thesis
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (1): 27–34.
Published: 01 May 1985
... of the Bombay Presidency between 1860 and of railways. By the first decade of the twentieth century,
1920, Michelle McAlpin argues that British policy mitigated recurrent famines had 'ceased to be a social, economic and
rather than aggravated famine. According to her claim...
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Ambedkar and Dalit Labor Radicalism: Maharashtra, 1936–1942
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 12–22.
Published: 01 May 1990
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was relatively rapid. By the early 19OOs, 40 percent of Do you bury your life in dust? from now on
the laborers in Nagpur’s new textile mills were Mahars,
and Mahars from the Konkan coastal region of south- Cry out the battle for freedom, take on whatever
western Maharashtra were moving into the Bombay...
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Interwar Housing Speculation and Rent Profiteering in Colonial Calcutta
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 465–482.
Published: 01 December 2016
... . Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny . London : Routledge , 2005 . Conlon Frank . “Industrialization and the Housing Problem in Bombay, 1850–1940.” In Changing South Asia: Economy and Society , edited by Ballhatchet Kenneth Taylor David , 153 – 68...
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Indian Immigrants and the Development of the Cotton Industry in Uganda
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1982) 2 (2): 29–34.
Published: 01 August 1982
.... Mangat , D. S. 1969 A History of Asians in East Africa c. 1886 to 1945 . Clarendon Press, Oxford. Panandikar , S. G. 1934 Banking in India . Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., Bombay. Ramchandani , R. R. 1976 Uganda Asians: The End of an Enterprise . U. A. Publications, Bombay...
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Notes on the History of the Handloom Weaving Industry of India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (2): 15–19.
Published: 01 August 1981
... de Paris VII, Paris. Buchanan , D. H. 1934 The Development of Capitalistic Enterprise in India New York: MacMillan Company. Joshi , N. M. 1936 Urban Handicrafts of the Bombay Deccan Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Publication no. 5. Mehta , S. D. 1953...
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