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...Robert Gregg Copyright © 1998 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1998 Unreal Cities: Bombay, London, New Yorkl Robert Gregg Falling Towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal -T.S...

...Oliver Coates Abstract Approximately 73,290 West Africans traveled to South Asia during World War II, but relatively little is known about their activities on the subcontinent. The photographs of African soldiers in India published in the British Army’s RWAFF News, a Bombay-printed newspaper...

..., sewers became social gatekeepers that separated citizens from barbarians. Ahmedabad’s struggle to procure sewers was highly controversial, as debates raged over the public’s state of enlightenment and the impact it would have upon caste structures. Unlike Bombay and Delhi, Ahmedabad remained...

... and identities produced within such processes. That borders and vast distances may obscure common historical experiences is a central premise of Greg Grandin's course on Native American peoples, Enrique Ochoa's course on the U.S.-Mexico bor- derlands, and Robert Gregg's course on Bombay, London...

... towns, constructed canals, developed a taxation system, and fought successfully in a number of battles against the Moguls of India. He allied himself with freed Africans (Siddis) on Janjira Island, just opposite the city of Bombay. Malik Ambar was proud of his...

... be accessed and read in a manner that departs from the normative teleological structures of studying history. For example, a short story published in the magazine, “A Letter from a Prostitute,” centers around two Hindu and Muslim girls who end up in a dilapidated brothel in Bombay through a series...

... The committee in London was the nodal point for provincial collections across the United Kingdom and overseas. Forty-nine regional relief committees in Wales, Devon, Rotterdam, Singapore, Bombay, and elsewhere sent £55,502. 6 In total, the BRA received £267,839 from 5,806 individual donations...

..., Lord Willingdon, the governor of Bombay province, said of Gandhi that he is “Honest, but a Bolshevik and for that reason very dangerous.”14 If power is allowed the latitude to define what is or what is not terrorism, the left has already been put on the road...

... when accompanied by “soft power” cultural programs and private business ventures. And yet the historical record shows that local athletes and spectators of all classes, from Bombay and Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, often enjoyed the imported games on their own terms...

... in the colonial government, continually dam- aged the new imperial vision that Britain worked so hard to create in its new capital. By the time of the city’s inauguration in 1931, the city had become a focus of suspi- cion. As one Indian editorial writer claimed in the Bombay Chronicle, “India knows New...

... Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 269-301; Radha Kumar, “Family and Factory: Women in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1919-1939,” in Women in Colonial India: Essays on Survival, Work and the State, ed. J. Krishnamurty (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 19891, 134-62. 14...

...; Robert Gregg, “Unreal Cities: Bombay, London, New York,” Radical History Review, no. 70 (1998): 131 – 48. For part 3, see Monica M. van Beusekom and Ian Christopher Fletcher, “Empires and Encounters III: Introduction,” Radical History Review, no. 71 (1998): 133 – 36; Mansour...

... (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997). 32. V. B. Karnik, M. N. Roy: A Political Biography (Bombay: Nav Jagriti Samaj, 1978), 44–45. 33. Given that great stress has been placed on Rai’s infl uence on Du Bois while he was in New...

... . Bombay : Oxford University Press , 1950 . Brown Mark . Penal Power and Colonial Rule . Abingdon : Routledge , 2014 . Chatterji Basudev . “ The Darogah and the Countryside: The Imposition of Police Control in Bengal and Its Impact (1793–1837) .” Indian Economic and Social History...

... RWAFF News , a newspaper printed in Bombay for the army’s more than seventy-three thousand West African troops stationed in South Asia during WWII. Coates uses this rare visual record of African military service overseas to examine the leisure practices of these soldiers in India. Coates sheds light...

... Press, 1956))142; Manabendra Nath Roy, M.N. Roy‘s Memoirs (Bombay: Allied Publish- ers, lW),378; John Haithcox, Communism and Nationalism in India: M.N. Roy and Comintern Policy, 1920-1939 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), 14-15; D.C. Grover, M.N. Roy: A Study of Revolution...

... Bombay, was also similar to the Mississippi ports of Stephen Foster-full of mesmerizing sounds and fascinating sights but places where all the ”natives” were friendly incarnations of ”charming local color.” I take your hand and lead you.. . that minor pleading note calls you onward...

..., The Bomb in Bengal: The Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism in India, 1900–1910 (London: Oxford University Press, 1993). 16. See Adi Doctor, Anarchist Thought in India (Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1964); M. K. Gandhi, “Hind Swaraj...

... with and an allegiance to Britain and things British for its vision and its cachet — articulated here through the idiom of orientalism. Set in 1939, the book chronicles Rama Rau’s return to her grandmother’s house in Bombay, and to India more generally, for the first time in nearly a decade. Though born in India...

... by reprioritizing their household expenditures. To illus- trate this, the study compared Shanghai spending patterns with those of working families around the world, including those from the United States, New Zealand, Osaka, Berlin, Great Britain, and Bombay. It concluded that, in comparison, Shang- hai...