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...Frank F. Conlon Bombay: Metaphor for Modern India . Edited by Sujata Patel and Alice Thorner . Bombay : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xxxiii, 298 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Bombay: Mosaic of Modern Culture . Edited by Sujata Patel and Alice Thorner . Bombay : Oxford University...

... activities of the educated elite of one Indian province, Bombay, in the late nineteenth century. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 1 This has been most clearly recognized in the cases of Britain and traditional China. In the British case, higher education trained...

...R. I. Cashman Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Bombay Presidency in the Mid-eighteenth Century . By Holden Furber . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1965 . Issued under the auspices of the Heras Institute of Indian History and Culture, viii, 76 , Index...

...Henry H. Schloss Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 The Emergence of an Industrial Labor Force in India: A Study of the Bombay Cotton Mills, 1854–1947 . By Morris David Morris . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1965 . 263...

... by such events as the Wahhabi trials of the eighteen sixties and the Kuka uprisings of 1869–72. British responses to nationalist challenges for decades to come were conditioned by the resulting insecurity, and nowhere was this more dramatically reinforced than in Bombay Presidency in the late eighteen seventies...

...Frank F. Conlon Urban Leadership in Western India: Politics and Communities in Bombay City 1840–1885. . By Christine Dobbin . London : Oxford University Press , 1972 . viii, 305 pp. Glossary, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $19.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Stewart N. Gordon Bombay and the Marathas up to 1774 . By W. S. Desai . New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal , 1970 . xii. 248 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography. Index. Rs. 26.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 433 Both of these books...

...R. A. Schermerhorn Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 The Bene Israel of Bombay . By Schifra Strizower . With a foreword by B. J. Israel . New York : Schocken Books , 1971 . xiv, 176 pp. Bibliography. $8.00. 436 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Indian press...

...Mitch Numark Abstract A consideration of colonial Bombay enriches the understanding of the activities and ideas of Christian missionaries and Orientalists in India and elucidates British conceptions of “the religions of India” and the production of colonialist knowledge. This article focuses...

...Hemalata C. Dandekar Bombay in Transition: The Growth and Social Ecology of a Colonial City, 1880–1980 . By Meera Kosambi . Stockholm : Almqvist and Wiksell International , 1986 . 204 pp. Tables, Figures, Plates, Appendix, Notes, References. SEK 110. Copyright © The Association...

...Reeve Vanneman Surplus Labour and the City: A Study of Bombay . By Heather and Vijay Joshi . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1976 . xii, 189 pp. Index. Rs. 45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 4°2 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES history, has also...

...Madhavi Kale Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay . By Thomas Blom Hansen . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2001 . 312 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1276 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...William Harman Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum . By Atreyee Sen . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2007 . ix , 220 pp. $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 The Mahila Agadi (Women's Front...

...Philip Lutgendorf Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City . By Ranjani Mazumdar . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2007 . xxxvii, 257 pp. $67.50 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Although I can think of only...

...Frank F. Conlon Chopra's monograph is a true contribution to bringing architectural practice and perception into the history of Bombay city. It does have some shortcomings that must be acknowledged. Some resources appear to not have been consulted, including the four volumes of The Bombay...

...John Patrick Haithcox Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 Student Politics in Bombay . By Philip G. Altbach . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , 1968 . 218 pp $5.75. 912 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES differences in the traditional order determine differing...

...Ian J. Kerr The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 . By Rajnarayan Chandavarkar . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 . xviii, 468 pp. $69.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Douglas E. Haynes Artisans and Industrialization: Indian Weaving in the Twentieth Century . By Tirthankar Roy . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xi, 243 pp. $23.00 (cloth). The Bombay Textile Strike, 1982–83 . By Hubert W. M. van Wersch . Bombay : Oxford University...

...Douglas E. Haynes Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West Coast . By Lakshmi Subramanian . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1996 . ix, 368 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1143...

..., and poignant, and they invite the reader into a deepened appreciation for the complexity and depth of South Indian folk culture. Every library should have it. FRED W. CLOTHEY University of Pittsburgh Men to Bombay, Women at Home: Urban Influence on Sugao Village, Deccan Maharashtra, India, 1943-1982...