How Long to Read The Making of an Indian Metropolis

How Long Does it Take to Read The Making of an Indian Metropolis?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 32 minutes to read The Making of an Indian Metropolis by Prashant Kidambi

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a variety of archival sources, the book offers a systematic analytical account of historical change in a premier colonial city. In particular, it considers the ways in which the turbulent changes unleashed by European modernity were negotiated, appropriated or resisted by the colonised in one of the major cities of the Indian Ocean region. A series of crises in the 1890s triggered far-reaching changes in the relationship between state and society in Bombay. The city’s colonial rulers responded to the upheavals of this decade by adopting a more interventionist approach to urban governance. The book shows how these new strategies and mechanisms of rule ensnared colonial authorities in contradictions that they were unable to resolve easily and rendered their relationship with local society increasingly fractious. The study also explores important developments within an emergent Indian civil society. It charts the density and diversity of the city’s expanding associational culture and shows how educated Indians embraced a new ethic of ’social service’ that sought to ’improve’ and ’uplift’ the urban poor. In conclusion, the book reflects on the historical legacy of these developments for urban society and politics in postcolonial Bombay. This wide-ranging work will be essential reading for specialists in British imperial history, postcolonial studies and urban social history. It will also be of interest to all those concerned with the comparative history of governance and public culture in the modern city.

How long is The Making of an Indian Metropolis?

The Making of an Indian Metropolis by Prashant Kidambi is 451 pages long, and a total of 113,201 words.

This makes it 152% the length of the average book. It also has 138% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Making of an Indian Metropolis Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 18 minutes to read The Making of an Indian Metropolis aloud.

What Reading Level is The Making of an Indian Metropolis?

The Making of an Indian Metropolis is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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