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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Bombay"”.
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Chawls : popular dwellings in Bombay
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1981
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From Lancashire to Bombay: Commercial Networks, Technology Diffusion, and Business Strategy in the Bombay Textile Industry
… textile industrialisation in late 19th century Bombay, and reflects upon the evolving character of Indian manufacturing and organisational behaviour within and beyond the colonial context, and into 21st century industrial strategy. Drawing upon primary archival material from sources in Britain …
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Oasis itinéraire de Delhi à Bombay
Production littéraire du livre qui sera publié deux ans plus tard.
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[Reports by the Executive Health Officer, Bombay]
• History of Plague in Bombay from 1896 to 1907 with summary of the measures taken and suggestions for the prevention of Plague on our present Knowledge of the Disease. • MALARIA IN BOMBAY From 1901 to 1909. • INFANT Mortality In BOMBAY, AND HOW TO REDUCE IT. • HOW TUBERCULOSIS IS SPREAD IN INDIA.
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German film, world travel: Berlin, Hollywood, Bombay
This dissertation considers the work of German filmmakers who traveled to the United States and India between 1919 and 1936. This subject covers a wide range of documentary and feature films made throughout the interwar period, which are significant for two main reasons. First, through these films, …
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Disco Jalebi : an ethnographic exploration of Gay Bombay
Gay Bombay is an online-offline community (comprising a website, a newsgroup and physical events in Bombay city), that was formed as a result of the intersection of certain historical conjectures with the disjunctures caused via the flows of the radically shifting ethnoscape, financescape, …
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Bombay before Bollywood: the history and significance of fantasy and stunt film genres in Bombay cinema of the pre-Bollywood era
… (or republished) as chapters within my monograph Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies, which aimed to outline the contours of an alternative history of twentieth-century Bombay cinema. The ninth, which complements these, was published in an annual reader. This project eschews the …
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Toward a design methodology : a case of chawls in Bombay
… it still is the most popular form of housing in Bombay. Current trends in the city reflect even the housing cooperatives adopting this type. The general type referred to is the high density low income housing for the industrial labor force with back to back dwelling units as seen in Britain and …
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Empire's metropolis : money time & space in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1930
… to study the historical geography of colonial Bombay through five interlocking themes and periods from 1870-1930. This spans the period between the boom and bust in the cotton trade during and after the American Civil War - when Bombay was a colonial mercantile port - to its emergence as of one …
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Making the Modern Slum: Housing, Mobility, and Poverty in Bombay and its Peripheries
… through the 19th and early 20th centuries in Bombay primarily, and Karachi and Aden secondarily. It is the first historical study of slums, or poor and stigmatized housing, in colonial Western India. It critically engages with the terms of global urban modernity and the historiography of …
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"The Geography of Letters": Space and the Little Magazine in Bombay, 1960 - 1980
… little magazine in late twentieth-century Bombay. The project takes as its focus a period of roughly two decades from 1960 to 1980 and the publications of “second generation” post-independence Indian writers. Deploying a mixed methodology of book history, literary-historical analysis, data …
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Slums, Squatters and Urban Redevelopment Schemes in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore, 1894-1960
… the built environments of the urban poor across Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Considering corporeal measures to inspect the bodies and homes of the urban poor and measures to introduce urban ‘improvement’ schemes, this chapter argues that plague sparked a sustained interest in the urban …
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A Comparative History of Gender and Factory Labour in Ottoman Bursa and Colonial Bombay, c.1850-1910
… in silk factories in Bursa and cotton mills in Bombay between 1850 and 1910. The project undermines the notion that women's labour was incidental to the development of large-scale factory enterprise in Ottoman and Indian lands. I argue that the confinement of women to labour-intensive and …
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Resurrection of the Bombay trans-harbour link project by using Wheaton's monocentric models of urban land use
BOMBAY TRANS-HARBOUR LINK PROJECT: A possible solution to Bombay's seemingly unsurmountable social problems. The primary idea behind this thesis is to present a new technique for the appraisal of large scale urban transportation projects which are envisaged to have a major impact on the surrounding …
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Women's home-based income generation as a strategy towards poverty survival : dynamics of the 'khannawalli' (mealmaking) activity of Bombay
… workers who live in appalling conditions in Bombay. In this way. they have become essential to Bombay's industrial development and daily functioning. However. the activity remains "invisible" and very little notice is taken of the women or their work. This thesis uses the khannawalli activity …
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The Annapurna Mahila Mandal of Bombay : a caterers' paradise or a case of inlvolutionary growth in the informal sector?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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