Mumbai Fables Paperback - 2011
by Prakash, Gyan
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Details
- Title Mumbai Fables
- Author Prakash, Gyan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 408
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, United States
- Date 2011-10-30
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780691153179
- ISBN 9780691153179 / 0691153175
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 5.7 x 1 in (22.35 x 14.48 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress subjects Bombay (India), Bombay (India) - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 954.792
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From the rear cover
"A fascinating exploration of my favorite city, full of insider knowledge and sharp insights."--Salman Rushdie
"Gyan Prakash brilliantly combines the historian's savoir faire with the savvy seductions of the urban raconteur. Mumbai Fables splendidly explores the shape-changing, scene-setting experience of a city that dares to restlessly reinvent its horizons. It is the challenge of the 'present' and the survival of the everyday, Prakash argues, that gives Mumbai its myth and reality. 'It's now or never, ' the city seems to sing, 'tomorrow will be too late.'"--Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University
"Blending historical research with a novelistic spirit, Mumbai Fables fluidly unfolds the development of the city in a rich narrative that makes the story come alive. Prakash challenges our understanding of Mumbai's cosmopolitanism and his colorful descriptions enhance our view of the city in manifold ways. This is a great book."--Rahul Mehrotra, RMA Architects and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"This fabulous book is lively and engaging, as well as profound and important. In clear and compelling prose Prakash unearths dynamic features of one of the most important cities in the world, achieving a large-scale portrait, from its origins to today. Rich with stories, this is a masterful sweep through a great city's history."--Philip J. Ethington, University of Southern California
"Mumbai Fables tells the moving history of this city through extended vignettes and personal stories that are a pleasure to read. Providing countless insights, this superb book moves through different neighborhoods, time periods, and individuals, and wonderfully depicts the living city--the modern city--through five centuries of its existence."--Eric D. Weitz, author of Weimar Germany
