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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 516–518.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Rehanna Kheshgi Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious . By Tejaswini Niranjana . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2020 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9781478008187 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Tejaswini...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 216–218.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Clare Talwalker Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos . Edited by Prashant Kidambi , Manjiri Kamat , and Rachel Dwyer . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xxiv, 428pp. ISBN: 9780190061708 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 775–776.
Published: 01 August 2015
... villages afflicted by dire agrarian distress (though a daily wage rate of two rupees, as stated in the book, sounds implausible), and were forced to migrate to Mumbai for a livelihood. At the same time, since the book provides only sketchy information on wage rates and negotiations for other forms...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 687–710.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Patrick Eisenlohr Abstract The great urban diversity of Mumbai has given rise to a range of religious mobilizations that are not only shaped by a history of communalism along religious lines but also driven by intra-religious rivalry and competition in their urban environment. Against the backdrop...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 246–249.
Published: 01 February 2017
... Slum . By Claire Snell-Rood . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2015 . 296 pp. ISBN: 9780520284821 (cloth, also available in paper). The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai . By Liza Weinstein . Minneapolis...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 606–609.
Published: 01 August 2022
... incentivize the private sector to construct low-cost housing for the city's poor through “public private partnerships,” planners projected (Björkman, pp. 47–48). The two books reviewed here chart the making of urban spaces, politics, and lives in Bombay/Mumbai across these transitions—from colonial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 273–275.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Lisa Björkman Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India . By Tarini Bedi . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2022 . 248 pp. ISBN: 9780295749860 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 There's a poignant scene in the 2019 blockbuster Bollywood...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1178–1180.
Published: 01 November 2012
...William Elison Mumbai Fables: A History of an Enchanted City . By Gyan Prakash . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2010 . xi , 396 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Through the twentieth century, Bombay...
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Published: 01 August 2015
Figure 1. The Muharram Awareness Campaign banner in English on a city bus, Mumbai 2011 (World Islamic Network 2012 ). More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 347–357.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Pranab Bardhan Abstract The world's two most populous countries each made international headlines in 2008, thanks to the Sichuan earthquake and Beijing Olympics, the Mumbai terror attacks, and reports of how the global financial crisis affected the Chinese and Indian economies. However, China...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 793–794.
Published: 01 August 2020
...-India comparative scholar, this reviewer admires Mark Frazier's audacious undertaking in The Power of Place —comparing a century's contentious politics in Shanghai and Mumbai—but also understands that the book may have difficulty reaching broader audiences in comparative fields. To help guide readers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 99–139.
Published: 01 February 2011
... history. 50 His name is mentioned briefly, without details, in Sayarāb Abū Turābī, Dharmanā Dhvajadhārī (Mumbai: Divyajñān Prakāshan Mandir, 1981 ), 150. 51 Muḥammad Murād ‘Alī Juma‘ (1878–1966) of Mumbai was later to become the principal of the Ismaili Mission Center in that city; see...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 477–479.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., to the Mumbai attack in 2008, Yasmeen traces how the discourses of jihad constantly evolved, adapting to and influencing the changing nature of sociopolitical realities in Pakistan. Jihad and Dawah first provides the necessary context of Islam in Pakistan, or, more appropriately, the processes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 593–601.
Published: 01 August 2012
...' groups, senior citizens' societies, sex workers' unions, taxi drivers' unions, and small vendors' associations. Mumbai's dabbawallas , for example, went on strike for the first time in 120 years to protest Hazare's arrest. ( Dabbawallas are a unique service industry in Mumbai and other large...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1276–1278.
Published: 01 November 2003
... of municipal corruption and governmental negligence were crucial not only to its success but also to understanding the transformation of the city's political society, exemplified in the city's 1995 renaming to Mumbai. In "Deccan Pastoral: The Making of an Ethnohistorical Imagination in Western India," Hansen...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 222–223.
Published: 01 February 2021
... the Border to India: Youth , Migration , and Masculinities in India by Jeevan R. Sharma is an ethnographic account of young male Nepali migrants in, and on their way to, India. It is a product of fieldwork that Sharma conducted across western Nepal and in Mumbai, India, between 2004 and 2013. Sharma...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 839–841.
Published: 01 August 2014
... modern Mumbai was the emergence of land as a commodity in a geographically constricted landscape. The book, in the author's words, “recenters the history of Bombay's urban growth around the political economy of land” (p. 20). Rao introduces the beneficiaries of the project in a nuanced identity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 277–278.
Published: 01 February 2018
... definitional parameters in the process” (p. 5), to analyze how people with chronic diseases negotiate food and fat in Mumbai. Employing multiple methods, including participant-observation in a neighborhood community, clinic-based interviews with doctors and patients, and observation in the food production...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 256–257.
Published: 01 February 1998
.... It is inequitable when Tamil and Sanskrit have entries while equally important languages such as Bengali and Hindi do not. Like it or not, Bombay is now Mumbai, but the new term does not appear. Calcutta is listed as the most populous city in India, whereas Bombay/Mumbai has held that distinction for over a decade...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 255–256.
Published: 01 February 1998
... it or not, Bombay is now Mumbai, but the new term does not appear. Calcutta is listed as the most populous city in India, whereas Bombay/Mumbai has held that distinction for over a decade. This raises questions about the accuracy of other entries. A notable feature of these historical dictionaries are the extensive...