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Princeton University Press
Language
English
Pages
269

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Subjects
Social conditions, Politics and government, Mumbai (india), India, social conditions, India, politics and government, 20th century
Places
Bombay (India)
Times
20th century

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Acronyms vii
Introduction The Proper Name 1
Chapter 1. Deccan Pastoral: The Making of an Ethnohistorical
Imagination in Western India 20
Chapter 2. Bombay and the Politics of Urban Desire 37
Chapter 3. "Say with Pride That We Are Hindus": Shiv Sena
and Communal Populism 70
Chapter 4. Thane City: The Making of Political Dadaism 101
Chapter 5. Riots, Policing, and Truth Telling in Bombay 121
Chapter 6. In the Muslim Mohalla 160
Chapter 7. Living the Dream: Governance, Graft, and Goons 194
Conclusion. Politics as Permanent Performance 227.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index.

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306/.0954/7923
Library of Congress
HN690.B6 H36 2001, HN690.B6H36 2001

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269 p. :
Number of pages
269

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OL3958882M
ISBN 10
0691088403, 069108839X
LCCN
2001095813
OCLC/WorldCat
48110177
Library Thing
1757887
Goodreads
451937

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First Sentence

"The sense of living as a historical being, to be the rightful inheritor of the deeds of the past, is crucial to the making of national identity."

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