...Lisa Björkman This article turns ethnographic attention to the everyday practices involved in managing the ever-present possibility of water shortage in contemporary Mumbai. Drawing on research carried out in a few different neighborhoods—both popular as well as “world class”—that are supplied...

...Rachel Dwyer Ganesh is a popular deity all over India, invoked before all Hindu ceremonies as the Lord of Beginnings and Remover of Obstacles (Vighnaharta). His close association with Mumbai is well attested through the Ganapati Utsav, the Ganesh festival, not least because images of his immersion...

...Rachel Sturman Abstract The ubiquity of building construction in contemporary Mumbai is transforming everyday urban life and landscape. This article examines one facet of the building construction industry: its organization of labor through distinctions of skill. Distinctions among skilled...

...Harris Solomon Abstract This short story set in Mumbai imagines the enduring legacies of pandemic sickness and immunity. Everyday labors, pleasures, demands, and relations must be navigated across the fault lines of health, illness, and state surveillance. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...

... of the Mumbai Sangh, or RSS (National Organization of Volunteers)3, (formerly Bombay) government at the time of writing founded in 1925 in Nagpur, which functioned for sev- (M. Joshi of the Shiv Sena) promised radical meas- eral decades without directly intervening in the politi- ures to encourage...

... the Indian Ocean, the siege of Mumbai, India, by armed gunmen on November 26, 2008, implicated mobility in the Indian Ocean in large-scale violence, as reports indicated that the maritime movement of weapons and people were crucial in planning these attacks. 1 Amid these events, governments and media...

... Leela Fernandes Introduction sumer choice. Such processes have been particularly The policies of economic liberalization, initiated in acute in metropolitan urban centers such as Mumbai India in the 1990s,1 have been accompanied by a set (Bombay...

..., the Arab world, South Asia, and China and Taiwan, in Mumbai, India, in March of 2014.1 Our goal was to discuss the state of the humanities in the different regions; share thoughts about causes and prospects; and determine whether and if so, under what modalities to seek to undertake a larger...

... finance, gambling, and Mumbai, April 29, 1996. The lack of knowledge tainment and Media Industry, 3. governance have discussed how uncertainty is that Barjatya is referring to is a consequence a generative feature of contemporary life. See...

...- a friend of a big trainer in Mumbai, who appar- tinguish between a reality that was naturally deter- ently owed Chipper’s friend’s brother a favor, and mined and one that was manipulated. There was for which reason he provided him with informa- no objective future, just a future...

... and moral ties. The city’s garbage col- ity, or breakdown. In her article on the politics of lection operates through both a municipal labor water supply in Mumbai, Lisa Björkman explores force and an informal system of recycling, dispos- the way communities negotiate the ever-­present ing...

... . In Mahatma Phule Samagra Vangmaya , edited by Keer Dhananjay Malshe S. G. , 69 – 154 . Mumbai : Maharashtra Rajya Sahitya Ani Sanskruti Mandal , 1980 . ———. Sarvajanik Satya Dharmapustak . In Mahatma Phule Samagra Vangmaya , edited by Keer Dhananjay Malshe S. G. , 357 – 458...

...-Seeking Society). Ambedkar's education was famously international, but once he returned to India in 1924, his early professional, political, and activist life was shaped by the thriving, turbulent, increasingly industrial city of Bombay (now Mumbai). Here, Ambedkar witnessed two intertwined trends...

... , 1 – 20 . New Delhi : Macmillan India , 2005 . Björkman Lisa . “Becoming a Slum: From Municipal Colony to Illegal Settlement in Liberalization-Era Mumbai.” In Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local , edited by Shatkin Gavin , 208 – 40 . Oxford...

... Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. and connective social and cultural histories of West, Central, and South Asia (from roughly the seven- Farzin Vejdani is an assistant professor in the Depart- teenth to nineteenth centuries), about which she has ment of History at Ryerson University. He holds...

... of the text. All French to English translations are my own. References Anand Nikhil . “ Municipal Disconnect: On Abject Water and Its Urban Infrastructures .” Ethnography 13 , no. 4 ( 2012 ): 487 – 509 . ———. “ PRESSURE: The PoliTechnics of Water Supply in Mumbai .” Cultural...

... the nightmarish possibility of a major cyclone landfall in Mumbai, India, a city that appears unprepared for it and exceedingly vulnerable. A subsequent scientific research study shows this specific story line to be plausible, even though it is without precedent in the city's modern history. 42 Although...

... in Göttingen and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He also holds a Tata Chair in Social Sciences at the Tata Institute for Social Sci­ ences in Mumbai. His work has been mostly on Indian religion and society, but his forthcoming...

..., Set, Grow: Ernst Young Attractiveness Survey: India 2015 . Mumbai : EYGM Ltd . www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/ey-2015-india-attractiveness-survey-ready-set-grow/$FILE/ey-2015-india-attractiveness-survey-ready-set-grow.pdf . Franklin Templeton . States of Emergence: The Evolution...

...  –  2000) and accumulation by the dispossession caused by dams taught in the English faculty at the University of and mining in India and Canada as well as gentrif- Oxford, where she was Professorial Fellow of Wolf- cation and exclusion in the global cities of Mumbai son College (2001  –  6). Her...