By Gyan Prakash
A spot of spectacle and damage, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan city. it isn't only a sizeable urban but in addition a hovering imaginative and prescient of recent city lifestyles. hundreds of thousands from India and past, of other ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its seashores, bringing with them their wants and goals. Mumbai Fables explores the mythic internal lifetime of this mythical urban as visible via its population, newshounds, planners, writers, artists, filmmakers, and political activists. during this amazing cultural heritage of 1 of the world's most vital city facilities, Gyan Prakash reveals the tales in the back of its fantastic heritage, viewing Mumbai via its turning issues and kaleidoscopic rules, comedian e-book heroes, and well-known scandals--the background in the back of Mumbai's tales of chance and oppression, of terrific wealth and grinding poverty, of cosmopolitan wishes and nativist energies.
Starting from the catastrophic floods and terrorist assaults of contemporary years, Prakash reaches again to the sixteenth-century Portuguese conquest to bare the tales at the back of Mumbai's historical trip. analyzing Mumbai's position as a logo of chance and reinvention, he appears at its nineteenth-century improvement below British rule and its twentieth-century emergence as a fabled urban at the sea. varied layers of city event come to gentle as he recounts the narratives of the Nanavati homicide trial and the increase and fall of the tabloid "Blitz," and Mumbai's transformation from the pink urban of alternate unions and communists into the saffron urban of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena. Starry-eyed planners and elite visionaries, cynical leaders and violent politicians of the road, land sharks and underworld dons jostle with usual electorate and bad immigrants because the urban copes with the dashed goals of postcolonial city lifestyles and lurches into the seductions of globalization.
Shedding mild at the city's prior and current, Mumbai Fables bargains an remarkable examine this outstanding city.
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