Author: Dwivedi Sharada
Place: Mumbai
Publisher: Eminence Designs Pvt Ltd
Year: 2001
Pages: 352
ISBN: 81-900602-6-0
Subject: Bombay/ Mumbai
Sub-Subject: Bombay
Keyword: Chronology Bibliography, History
Classification: 720.9
Shelf: C5R3
Accession No: B17
Contents: Foritiesord, Essay, Commentary, Afterword, Postscript, Edited
Abstract: Contents : Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Book I : The Genesis of a Settlement 1650s – 1850s : 1. A fort on a fishermen`s Island; 2. Beyond the fort walls; Book II : The evolution of a core 1860s-1880s : 3. The emergence of a centre; 4. Public Intervention and private Enterprise; Book III : The creation of a city 1890s – 1920s : 5. Orchestrating realism and idealism; 6. decades of change; BooK IV : The growth of a metropolis 1930s-1990s : 7. Transitions to modernity; 8. Exploding city, imploding centre; In conclusion : one space, two worlds; Maps; Chronology; Bibliography; Photo credits; Index.