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by Prakash, Gyan;

Development Department, 83, 85, 87–89, 92

  Development Directorate, 82

  Devidayal, Meera, 331, 334–37, 348

  Altamount Road, 336

  “Dream Home” exhibition, 331

  Gold Valley, 331

  Luxurious 1,2&3 BHK Flats, 331

  Objects in the Mirror Are Closer than They Appear, 335

  “Tum Kab Aaoge” (When Will You Come) series, 334–36

  “Where I Live” series, 336

  Devoted Wife (film), 107

  Dharavi, 12, 329, 337–39

  Dharavi Rehabilitation Project, 330

  Dharti ke Lal (Children of the Earth) [film], 136–37

  Dhasal, Namdeo, 10, 25, 29–30

  Dhawan, Prem, 147, 149

  Diamond Queen (film), 109

  Dickens, Charles, Bleak House, 69

  Diler Daku, or Thunderbolt (film), 109

  Dilruba Daku, or Amazon (film), 109

  Direct Action Day, 141

  Ditchburn and Mistri, 102

  D’Monte, Darryl, 353n12, 376n5, 376n10

  D. N. (Hornby) Road. See Dadabhai Naoroji Road

  Dobbin, Christine, 355n6, 355n11

  Doctor, Vikram, 360n55

  Doga comic book series, 289–91, 304–24, 347

  city as setting for, 305–6

  communal conflict in, 317–20

  crime in, 290, 308–13

  the hero of, 289–90, 306–7, 318–21, 323

  law in, 308, 313, 315–16, 321, 323–24

  and Mumbai, 289–90, 306–10, 317–24

  readership of, 291

  religion in, 307

  social alienation in, 307–9

  violence in, 306, 308–9, 312–13, 315, 318–21

  Doga Hindu Hai (Doga Is Hindu) [comic book], 317–20

  Doga Ka Curfew (Doga’s Curfew) [comic book], 320

  Dominicans, 33

  Donde, Kamal, 214

  Dongri neighborhood, 56, 297

  double colonization, 51–52, 73–74, 326

  dredger, 83, 85–87

  Dr. Kotnis ki Amar Kahani (The Immortal Journey of Dr. Kotnis) [film], 136

  D’Souza, J. B., 270, 277, 282

  Dubai, 297, 300–301

  Dumasia, Naoroji M., 57–60

  Dutt, Rajni Palme, 138–39

  Dwivedi, Sharada, 45, 356n32, 357n67, 359n33, 360n38, 360n41, 360n47, 360n50, 360n53, 361n66

  East India Company, 27, 34–37, 39, 44

  Eckert, Julia, 370n79

  economy, 231, 239

  edge cities, 20

  Edwardes, S. M. (pen name: Etonensis), 61–63

  Edward VII, King of England, 26, 29, 51, 74

  Elephanta Caves, 267

  Eliot, T. S., 134, 255

  elites: architecture/design and, 99, 103

  and Backbay scandal, 93–94

  under British colonial rule, 50–51

  Mumbai aspirations of, 14, 22

  Nanavati case involving, 158–62, 199, 200

  political sentiments of, 18–19

  and progressive politics, 137–40

  Elphinstone Circle. See Horniman (Elphinstone) Circle

  Empire State Building, New York City, 96

  encounter killings, 314, 316

  entertainment, 104–11, 208

  Eros Theater, 101–2, 102

  Esplanade, 45–46, 47

  Evans, Mary, 108

  Evening News of India (newspaper), 5

  Evening Standard (London newspaper), 163

  Evenson, Norma, 372n8

  everyday life, 55, 60–61, 95–96, 144, 168, 303, 324, 348

  Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels moderne (Paris, 1925), 95

  Express Towers, 274

  Fairbanks, Douglas, 108, 109

  Farooqui, Amar, 355n7, 355n11, 355n13

  Fearless Nadia film series, 108–11, 110

  Felden, E. J. Peter, 106

  Femina (magazine), 6–7

  Fernandes, George, 235

  Fernandes, Naresh, 360n52, 377n17

  Fernandez, Clarence, 377n17

  Fielden, Lionel, 134

  film. See cinema

  film noir, 154, 303

  flânerie, 53, 57, 121

  flooding, 13–15, 27, 67–68

  Fort area, South Bombay, 27–29, 28, 35–36, 99

  Franciscans, 33

  Free Press Journal (newspaper), 228, 281, 283

  Frere, Bartle, 44–46

  Freud, Sigmund, 284

  Gadgil, Gangadhar, 5–6

  Gama, Vasco da, 30, 33

  Gaman (Departure) [film], 332–34

  Gandhi, Indira, 10, 166–67, 240, 291–92

  Gandhi, J. M., 278, 280–83, 287

  Gandhi, Mahatma, 26, 134, 141, 142, 212, 215, 251–52

  Gandhi, Sanjay, 292

  Gateway of India, 25–26, 28, 326–27, 341, 342

  Gavankar, D. N., 133, 213

  Gazetteer, 342

  Geddes, Patrick, 65, 285–86

  Genda (comic book), 309–13

  gender. See men; women

  generic cities, 21–22

  Gera, Nalini, 367n57

  German Expressionism, 136, 255

  Gilloch, Graeme, 354n27, 356n40

  Girangaon (Village of the Mills), 67, 206–18, 246, 249

  Girl Friend, The (film), 105

  Girni Kamgar Mahamandal, 210, 211

  Girni Kamgar Union (GKU), 211–12, 214, 218, 247

  GKU. See Girni Kamgar Union

  globalization, 20–21, 329

  Goa, 244

  Goans, 105

  Godley, Margaret C., 137, 139–40

  Gopal, Priyamvada, 362n11, 364n63

  Gordon, A.D.D., 368n21

  Gothic Revival architecture, 29, 47, 48

  architect of Bombay’s, 101

  Art Deco vs., 99

  colonial connotations of, 44, 46–48, 50

  Government of India Act (1935), 122–23

  Green’s (music venue), 105

  Gregson, Batley and King, 266

  Guha, Ram Chandra, 376n2

  Gujarat, 30, 31, 35, 222, 224–25

  Gujarati language, 220, 222

  Gun Sundari (Why Husbands Go Astray), 107

  Gupta, Sanjay, 306–7

  Gupta and Company, 275

  Haffkine, Waldemar, 69

  Hahn, Emily, 174–76

  Hanuman Theatre, 208

  Hansen, Thomas Blom, 371n79, 371n85

  Harding, Gilbert, 134

  Harris, Nigel, 376n6

  Harvey, David, 354n20, 356n36

  Harvey, Thomas, 92

  Haussmann, Georges-Eugène, 48

  Hazaribagh, 4, 5

  Hepper, Lawless, 88, 90–91

  High Court building, 47

  Hindi cinema: golden age of, 148–49

  impact of, 4

  and Marine Drive, 77–78

  music of, 343

  origins of, 107. See also cinema

  Hindi language, 128, 130, 222

  Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), 218

  Hinduism: in Bombay, 43

  saffron as color of, 205

  violence between Muslims and Hindus, 10, 141–43, 205, 236–37, 243, 298–302, 307–8, 317–20

  Hindustan Times Tabloid, 160

  history, in flea markets, 340–46

  Hitler, Adolf, 163–64

  HMIS Talwar, 216

  Hogarth Press, 255

  Hollywood films, 105, 107

  Holston, James, 354n22, 372n7

  home, meaning of, 330–37

  home ownership, 330–32

  Hopkinson, Frederick, 91–92

  Hornby, William, 44

  Hornby Road. See Dadabhai Naoroji Road

  Hornby Vellard, 44

  Horniman, Benjamin Guy, 89, 163

  Horniman (Elphinstone) Circle, 27, 45, 46, 50

  Hoskote, Ranjit, 353n9

  housing: apartment complexes, 100–101, 113

  development justified by need for,
81–83, 274, 329–30

  immigrants’, 64–65, 67, 336

  and meaning of home, 330–37

  in New Bombay, 271–72

  of the poor, 70, 111–12

  urban planning and, 261

  Vision Mumbai and, 329–30

  working-class, 64–68, 112–13, 207

  Huezé, Gérard, 370n79, 371n87

  Human Development Report, 288

  Hunterwali, or The Lady with the Whip (film), 108, 109

  Hurricane Hansa (film), 109

  Hussain, M. F., 255

  Hutatma Chowk (Flora Fountain), 27

  Ibrahim, Dawood, 295–98, 300

  Ideal Home Exhibition (Bombay, 1937), 97, 98

  identity: under colonialism, 118

  of Marathi manoos, 232–33

  as national citizen, 118, 150–51

  working-class neighborhood, 207–9

  Illustrated Weekly of India (magazine), 6–7, 105, 115

  immigrants: to Bombay/Mumbai, 10–11, 23, 234

  British colonial commerce and, 36

  as cab drivers, 334–37

  living conditions of, 64–65, 67, 207, 336

  meaning of home for, 332–37

  as mill workers, 42–43, 206–7

  neighborhood ties of, 207–9

  rural ties maintained by, 66–67, 207–9, 332–37

  Shiv Sena opposition to, 231–35

  success stories of, 337–39

  Independence, 117, 140–41, 143

  India: cosmopolitanism of, 152, 154

  government of, 140–41, 220

  national identity of, 118

  Pakistan at war with, 239

  and Partition, 148

  village as symbol of, 251–52. See also nationalism

  India Coffee House, 135

  Indian Concrete Journal, 99

  Indian Institute of Architects, 97, 266

  Indian National Congress (Congress), 53, 130, 140–41, 205, 210, 212, 216–18, 220, 223, 225, 238, 240–41, 245, 248, 291, 292, 294, 301, 302

  Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), 218

  Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), 129, 131–37, 139, 147, 212, 216

  Indrajal (comic book series), 304

  industrialization: building projects and, 48

  negative effects of, 48, 65, 71, 112. See also capitalism

  industrial modernity, 2, 67, 98–99, 101, 103–4, 108, 111, 114–16

  INS Mysore, 176, 182

  IPTA. See Indian People’s Theatre Association

  Island of Love, 31, 33

  Istanbul, Turkey, 117

  Jaffer, Amin, 359n36

  Jafri, Ali Sardar, 131, 147

  Yeh Kiska Khoon Hai? (Whose Blood Is This?), 132–33

  Jahan, Rashid, 125–26, 129

  Jains, 36

  Jai Prakash movement, 292

  Jardine, William, 38

  Jardine Matheson and Company, 38

  jazz, 104–6, 343

  Jehangir Art Gallery, 51

  Jehu, Ivor, 163

  Jejeebhoy, Byramjee, 40

  Jejeebhoy, Jamsetjee, 37–39, 213

  Jesuits, 33–34

  Jethmalani, Ram, 202, 248

  Jewish Center at Nariman House, 17–18

  Jinnah, Mohammad Ali, 141

  Joshi, P. C., 131, 137, 139

  Joshi, Ram, 370n75

  Joshi, S. M., 223

  Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects (JIIA), 97, 98, 100, 255–56, 258, 263

  jury system, 160, 190

  J. Walter Thompson (JWT) [advertising agency], 106–7

  Kakodkar, Priyanka, 353n12

  Kala Bazaar (film), 78, 78

  Kala Ghoda, 26, 29, 51

  Kamat, Dinanath, 243, 371n92

  Kamathipura, 113–14

  Kamgar Maidan, 213

  Kannada language, 220

  Kapoor, Prithviraj, 136, 147, 150

  Kapoor, Raj, 78, 147, 150–54, 151, 153

  Kapoor, Shammi, 147

  Kapur, Geeta, 372n12

  Karaka, D. F., 166–67, 193, 276–77

  Karanjia, Russi, 5, 162–68, 168, 175, 183, 187, 190–92, 196, 201–3, 206, 292

  Karnataka, 222, 237, 239

  Karnik, Anil, 246

  Kartik, Kalpana, 157, 157

  Katari (navy chief), 185

  Katzenstein, Mary, 248–49, 370n56, 370n68, 372n103

  Kaveney, Roz, 377n30

  KGB, 7

  Khaki Aur Khaddar (comic book), 313–17

  Khan, M. S., 216

  Khandalawala, Karl J., 171, 180

  Khatau, Sunit, 295

  Khosla, Raj, 78

  Kidambi, Prashant, 358n1

  kinetic city, 339–40

  King, Anthony D., 357n71

  King, H. Foster, 266

  Klein, Ira, 357n75

  Knightley, Philip, 7, 353n4

  Kolis, 33, 34

  Kolkata (Calcutta), 5, 10, 36–37

  Koolhaas, Rem, 21, 354n25, 354n26

  Kosambi, Meera, 355n25, 361n69, 369n43

  Kracauer, Siegfried, 305, 377n32

  Krishnan, Parvati, 138

  Krishnaswamy, S., 149, 360n57, 364n62

  Kulkarni, R. S., 204, 247

  Kumarmangalam, Mohan, 138

  Kureishi, Zahir Babar, 163

  Laclau, Ernesto, 370n64

  Lala, Karim, 296–97

  Lalbaug neighborhood, 206, 209

  Lal Bawta Kalapathak (Red Flag Artists’ Group), 213

  Lamb, Thomas W., 102

  Lancashire, England, 39

  land reclamation, 44–45, 51, 75–77, 79–94, 114, 116, 272, 274–84

  language: diversity of, 10–11, 43, 56

  newspapers’ use of English, 164

  political boundaries and, 219–28

  Laski, Harold, 134, 280

  Lateef, Shaheed, 126

  law. See rule of law

  Le Corbusier, 252–53, 256, 257

  Lefebvre, Henri, 55, 260, 340, 356n50, 373n23, 379n15

  Legislative Council, 88, 92

  Lele, Jayant, 370n58, 370n60, 371n86

  Lenin, Vladimir, 214

  Leon Abbey Band, 104, 106

  Leopold Café, 17

  lesbianism, 126–27

  linguistic states, 219–28, 244

  Lintas advertising agency, 106

  Little Theatre movement, 132

  living conditions. See housing

  Lloyd, George, 81–82, 85, 89, 91–92

  Lobo, John, 158–60, 173

  loknatya, 208, 213

  Lok Seva Dal (People’s Service League), 242, 245–46

  London, Christopher W., 356n33

  Lowther, Kidd and Company, 80, 82

  Lucknow, 130

  Ludhianvi, Sahir, 131, 148, 149

  Lumière Brothers, 107

  Lutaru Lalna (film), 109

  machine age, 96

  Maclean, James, Guide to Bombay, 44

  Madgavkar, Govind Narayan, 56–57

  Mumbaichi Varnan, 51–52

  Madhavdas, Varjivandas, 41

  Madras. See Chennai

  Mafatlal, 274

  Mahadevia, Darshini, 378n6

  Mahadik, Wamanrao, 248, 249

  Maha Gujarat Parishad, 225

  Mahalaxmi, 52

  Maharashtra, 9, 10, 219–28, 227, 237, 239, 240, 244, 272, 275, 279, 301, 328. See also Marathi manoos

  Maharashtra Girni Kamgar Union, 294

  Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), 205, 328

  Mahars, 34

  Mahim, 99

  Mahmud, Shabana, 362n8

  Mahmuduzzafar, 129

  Maidan, 29

  Majestic (music venue), 105

  Maker and Jolly Builders, 275

  Malabar Hill neighborhood, 70, 75, 77, 79, 99, 100

  Malayalam speakers, 233

  Malihabadi, Josh, 131, 135, 147

  Malik, Hafeez, 362n18

  Malis, 33

  Manto, Saadat Hasan, 118–25, 131, 135, 143–
46

  “Babu Gopinath,” 123–24

  “Boo” (Odor), 127

  “Kaali Shalwaar” (Black Trousers), 127

  “Mammad Bhai,” 121–22

  “Mozail,” 145–46

  “Naya Qanoon,” 122–23

  “Taraqqipasand” (The Progressive), 131

  “Toba Tek Singh,” 144

  Mao Zedong, 219

  Marathas, 36

  Marathi language, 220–28

  Marathi manoos, 228–41, 249, 291, 347

  MARG (journal), 251, 255–56, 258–59, 263, 266, 268, 285, 287

  Marine Drive, 5, 9, 13, 76, 78

  Art Deco architecture along, 95–104, 100

  construction along, 79–83, 99–100

  meaning and image of, 75–79, 114

  Mark of Zorro, The (film), 109

  Marmik (cartoon weekly), 228–29, 231–35

  Marx, Karl, 73, 214

  Marxism, 129, 131, 138, 140, 209–10, 214, 240

  Masselos, J. C., 363n41

  Mastan, Haji, 296, 297

  master plan for Bombay, 258–65

  Matheson, James, 38

  Mau, Bruce, 354n26

  Mayer, Albert, 258, 260–63, 265–66

  Mazumdar, Ranjani, 377n29

  McCloud, Scott, 377n30

  McCord, Castor, 104

  McCormick, John, 368n25

  McKinsey and Company, 328

  media, terrorism coverage by, 16–19

  Meerut Conspiracy Case, 211

  Mehrotra, Rahul, 45, 339–40, 356n32, 357n67, 359n33, 360n38, 360n41, 360n47, 360n50, 360n53, 361n66, 375n78, 379n14

  Mehta, Pravina, 251, 263, 265–66, 287

  Mehta, R. B., 171, 180, 185, 187

  Mehta, Suketu, 12, 20, 327, 353n11, 354n18

  Memon, Tiger, 300–301

  men: Shiv Sena and, 238–39

  working class, 206–7

  Menon, Krishna, 192, 235–36, 241

  Menon, Meena, 367n7, 368n9, 368n16, 368n22, 368n24, 368n27, 369n32, 369n50

  Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 102

  Metro Theater, 101–2

  Mhatre, G. B., 104

  Miami, Florida, 96

  Mid-Day (newspaper), 5

  middle-class, morality of, 191

  migrants. See immigrants

  Millowners’ Association, 212

  mills: cotton, 11, 29, 40–43, 42, 293–95, 298

  textile, 11, 24, 206–9

  Mir, Ali Husain, 362n19

  Mir, Raza, 362n19

  Miranda, Mario, 6

  “Mario’s Bombay,” 6

  Miss 1933 (film), 107

  Miss Frontier Mail (film), 109

  Mistry, Homi D., 183

  Mistry, Rohinton: Family Matters, 13

  A Fine Balance, 292

  Mittal Group, 275

  Modak, N. V., 258, 260–66

  Modern Architectural Research Group, 256, 259

  modernist art, 255–56

  modernity: antiques emerging because of, 344–45

  Art Deco and, 95–96, 98–101, 103–4

  blasé outlook characteristic of, 311–12

  Blitz and, 170

  Bombay/Mumbai and, 3–7, 10, 23, 44, 48, 52–55, 61, 63, 77, 262–63

  capitalist, 96

  in Chaiwala’s “Tower of Silence,” 3

 

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