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urban planning, 251–88
Bombay City Improvement Trust and, 79–80
under British colonial rule, 44–45, 48, 50, 79–94
critique of, 284–88
Davidge’s plan, 83, 84, 85
experts’ role in, 253, 258, 286
ideal characteristics sought in, 260
land reclamation and, 79–94
for Marine Drive/Backbay area, 79–104, 271–84
modernist, 252–53, 255–57, 262, 286, 287
need for, 254–55, 259–61, 264–65, 285
Nehru and, 252
rational ideal in, 252–53, 262, 285–87
scandal concerning, 87–94, 89, 274–84
as science, 252–53, 286
Urdu language, 128, 130–31, 222
Van Wersch, H., 369n39, 376n8, 376n9
Varma, Bhagwati Charan, 135
Varma, Rashmi, 364n63
Vartak, H. G., 277, 282
Vasudevan, Ravi, 364n63, 377n28
Veer Nariman Road (Churchgate Street), 27, 36, 60
Verma, Surendra, 378n1
Victoria, Queen of England, 341
Victoria Terminus. See Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
Vidarbha, 222
Viegas, Acacio Gabriel, 68
Vienna, Austria, 48, 117
village, as symbol of India, 251–52
Village of the Mills. See Girangaon
violence: in Bombay politics, 245
in Doga comic books, 306, 308–9, 312, 315, 318–21
Hindu-Muslim, 10, 141–43, 236–37, 243, 298–302, 307–8, 317–20
Krishna Desai and, 243–44
linguistic states issue–related, 223–25
Partition-related, 117, 141–47
Shiv Sena use of, 15–16, 204–5, 223–25, 233–39, 242, 246–47, 291, 299. See also bombings; terrorism
Virilio, Paul, 21, 354n24
Vision Mumbai, 328–30
visuality, 60, 305–6
Vitali, Valentina, 360n58, 361n59
Vithal, Master, 108
Wacha, Dinshaw, Shells from the Sands of Bombay, 53–55
Wadhawan, Jagdish Chander, 361n2
Wadia, Homi, 108–9
Wadia, J.B.H., 108–9, 361n59, 361n60
Wadia, Mrs. (workers’ theater group member), 132
Wadia family, 37, 38, 41, 108–9
Wahi, Tarun Kumar, 306
Wales, Prince of, 28, 327, 341
Walker, Johnny, 4, 9, 78, 155, 156
Weber, Max, 52
Weiner, Stephen, 377n30
Wenner, Dorothee, 361n59
West Bengal, 5
White, Pearl, 108
Wilkins, Henry St Clair, 46
Windmiller, Marshall, 369n41, 369n42, 369n44, 369n46
women: employment restrictions on, 207
labor activities of, 214
social roles for, 109–11, 125–26
Woolf, Leonard, 255
Workers and Peasants Party, 209
Workers’ Theatre, 213
working class: Communist support of, 210–19
entertainment of, 208, 213
living conditions of, 64–68, 112–13, 207–8
and politics, 205–6
response of to modernity, 66–67
strikes by, 210–12, 214–15, 223–24, 240, 247, 293–94. See also poor, the
World Bank, 275, 287
World War II, 215–16, 293
Worli embankment, 44, 51–52
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 256
writers: in Bombay, 119–40
Hindi, 128, 130
and politics, 128–31, 147–48
Urdu, 128, 130–31
Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke (These Are the Pathways to Love) [film], 160
Young Party, 296
Yugantar (newspaper), 204
Zachariah, K. C., 372n9
Zaheer, Sajjad, 129–30, 147
Zaidi, S. Hussain, 377n25
Zakaria, Rafiq, 277, 282
Zitzewitz, Karin, 372n13
Zoroastrianism, 35