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Kahn, David Schultz Dwight. "The Bombay Project : a film /." [New London, Conn.?], 2006. http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/filmhp/.
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London, Christopher W. "British architecture in Victorian Bombay." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385562.
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Amdekar, Shachi Dilip. "From Lancashire to Bombay : commercial networks, technology diffusion, and business strategy in the Bombay textile industry." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277919.
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This thesis is an analysis of technology diffusion and the long-run institutional impact of the nature of that diffusion. It examines how a growing commercial trading relationship with Lancashire-based millwrights enabled 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 and India (including historical company records, trade association records, transactional correspondence between Lancashire and Bombay, and administrative records of the India Office in Whitehall), and upon 27 elite interviews with prominent Mumbai-based businessmen and their families, a technological and cultural dependence by manufacturing elites upon the commercial agent is identified. The emplacement of colonial business norms and particularly the use of informal networks, in turn bolstered by a culture for clubbability, appears to influence the distinctly tight-knit, ‘gentlemanly’ character of Indian family business houses established during the late 19th and early 20th century. Applying a mixed-methods approach to technology theory and analysis, the data chapters are split into two parts, respectively concerning info rmation flows and knowledge flows from the UK to Western India. The former explores patterns in technological transactions and decisions governing the diffusion of textile technology that enabled industrial establishment. The latter focuses on the replication of managerial, cultural and business practices following and reflecting upon Bombay’s textile industrialisation; this establishes the observed presence of British ideals of gentlemanly business conduct within informal networks, familial and community ties. Overall, this research highlights how business history may be used as a lens to understand the process of technology diffusion and analyse the reinforcement of culturally-hybrid social norms in peripheral regions via technical or commercial links. In terms of developmental trajectory, moreover, this case study considers how given limited capacity for innovation or capital goods production, strategic supply-side decisions may garner early cumulative value by replicating industrial production, albeit with long-term institutional consequences. This research has implications for future understanding of the development of UK-Commonwealth trading relationships, and how these might foster structural transformation in the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. While this thesis focuses on the diffusion of physical capital and technology-driven industry, such a narrative exploration of networks and business norms surrounding structural transformation might be pursued based on alternative factors of production including capital investment and flow, or else feasibly extend into other post-colonial regions.
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Charbogne, Marie-Bénédicte. "Aspect et devenir de l'habitat precaire a bombay : de la degradation des quartiers centraux a la croissance des quartiers d'habitat spontane." Caen, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993CAEN1131.
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La concentration de la population indienne dans quelques poles urbains a eu pour principale consequence, la croissance tres rapide des quartiers d'habitat spontane. A bombay, pres de la moitie de la population se repartit dans ces lieux mis en place en dehors des circuits officiels de construction. Une etude realisee aupres de 663 menages permet de mieux connaitre ces personnes souvent considerees comme marginales alors qu'elles contribuent au developpement economique de la ville. L'habitat spontane n'est pas le seul probleme auquel sont confrontes les pouvoirs publics qui doivent egalement faire place a la degradation du parc immobilier existant et notamment a l'effondrement des vieux immeubles des quartiers centraux. Ces deux formes d'habitat, bien que differentes l'une de l'autre, offrent des conditions de vie precaires a leurs occupants en raison de l'insuffisance des services de base, de l'environnement pollue et de logements degrades ou de fortune. Combattus ou delaisses pendant plusieurs decennies, les quartiers d'habitat precaire de bombay font l'objet, depuis la fin des annees 1980, de divers programmes d'amenagement destines a offrir des conditions de vie acceptables a tous ces bombayites<br>The concentration of the indian population in a few urban areas has, as a main consequence, a very fast growth of temporary sheltering zones in bombay. Nearly half of the population of bombay can be found in those places which have appeared outside the official building networks. A study carried out on 663 households allows to know better those people, who are often considered as marginals, although they contribute to the economic development of the city. Spontaneous sheltering isn't the only problem facing the public authorities who must also deal with the decaying of existing housing stock and notably the collapsing old building in inner city areas. Those two forms of accomodation, although they are different, both offer precarious living conditions to their tenants, due to the insufficient basic services, the polluted environment and degraded or makeshift dwellings. Fought against or forgottrn for several decades, precarious dwellings areas in bombay have been since the end of the nineteen eighties parts of various development programs which aim at providing acceptable living conditions to all those bombayites
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Bird, Emma Jade. "Reimagining Bombay : postcolonial poetry and urban space." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/8301.
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This thesis considers the ways in which poets writing in English in Bombay have represented the city and negotiated its particular challenges, focusing in particular on poets starting to publish during the 1950s and 1960s. Examining in detail work by poets whom Bruce King refers to as constituting a “Bombay circle”, this project examines how Nissim Ezekiel, Adil Jussawalla, Gieve Patel and Arun Kolatkar in particular have represented the modernity of the city (Modern Indian Poetry in English 45). Despite Bombay’s significance in postcolonial studies, this highly mediated city has been disassociated from its material histories by recent critical and imaginative portrayals. The over-determination of Bombay is countered and nuanced, this thesis suggests, by examining the ways in which poets have represented the city. Evaluating Bombay poetry closely, and considering the relationship between poetic form and language and the articulation of space, this project asks how poetry written in the city contributes to, intervenes in or disarticulates dominant readings of Bombay. The material contexts in which poetry was written and circulated provide further significant and under-researched sites of engagement with this postcolonial city. This thesis thus turns to a period in the city’s cultural and literary history that has not been extensively documented: to the emergence of its poetry scene from the 1950s onwards. This project combines close, poetic analyses with archival research, examining Bombay’s little magazines and small press publishers, and tracing the various local and international affiliations evidenced in this body of work. In doing so, its aim is to historicize and contextualize the city and the work of its poets, enriching a critical and materialist understanding of this paradigmatic city.
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Boucher, Lauretta Anne. "Community development -- The struggle for housing rights : a case study of pavement dwellers in Bombay India." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31229.
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The international campaign for housing rights focuses on the process of legislative change. Critics of the legislative change approach argue that this process is elitist insofar as such campaigns are fought on behalf of those people denied the right to housing by academics, lawyers and international non-governmental agencies, instead of in conjunction with the people. This approach, it is argued, excludes the people themselves from defining what housing rights mean to them, their culture and their community standards, placing such decisions in courts of law and legislatures. It is the position of this study that a more effective approach in the struggle for housing rights is one that recognizes that the problems of the poor and disenfranchized are not just their lack of rights per se, but also their lack of power to demand the legislative recognition and enforcement of those rights.
This study explores a more inclusive approach to the housing rights struggle wherein the achievement of legislative rights represents only one peg in a more holistic strategy for change. This approach is represented by the theory and practice of Community Development — a process which empowers people to work collectively for change. Community Development provides the tools for people to understand, define and demand their rights, thus providing a bottom up and sustainable strategy in the
struggle for housing rights. Community Development does not reject the role of legislative change, nor the responsibility of the state to recognize and enforce housing rights among its citizenry, but enhances the process to include all dimensions of the the housing struggle, most notably the community based sector which is currently excluded from the legislative change approach.
The viability of a Community Development approach is built upon the premise that rights are norms or standards determined by the shared values of society and influenced by the dominant ideology. If people can articulate their values as well as organize to demand from the state the recognition and enforcement of their values, then they can work for change and begin to shape their housing rights.
An indigenous non-governmental organisation using the methods of Community Development in the struggle for housing rights is the Society for the Promotion of Area Resources (SPARC). The work of SPARC focuses on a group of women pavement dwellers in Bombay India. In SPARC'S analysis, it is women who bear the brunt of poverty, yet are vested with virtually no powers of decision-making within (or outside) the family. SPARC uses the methods of Community Development to empower these women to demand the recognition and enforcement of their housing rights. Their work has resulted in such manifest outcomes as: challenging the Bombay Municipal Council in a court of law, building prototype houses, establishing a credit co-operative, undertaking a
people's census and the creation of Mahila Milan — a community based organisation run entirely by the women themselves. Other latent, less measurable outcomes have also resulted from their work such as confidence building and solidarity among the women.
SPARC'S use of Community Development methods on the streets of Bombay has important lessons for the international struggle for housing rights. Incorporating the community based sector in the struggle ensures that the process of defining and demanding housing rights remains democratic, culturally sensitive and sustainable. Community Development can be effectively facilitated by an indigenous non-governmental organisation which can gain the trust of the community and understand local customs, cultures, language and history.
Essentially the debate over the right to housing comes down to a set of ethical questions, the answers to which form the philosophical and moral framework for the policy decisions that face a society. A Community Development approach ensures that all people have a voice in answering these questions and influencing the decisions that affect their lives, their housing and indeed their rights.<br>Applied Science, Faculty of<br>Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of<br>Graduate
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Mehta, Monika. "Selections : cutting, classifying and certifying in Bombay cinema /." Diss., ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2001. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.
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Ignatius, Roger. "The Bombay Stock Exchange: tests of market efficiency." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332561/.
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This dissertation analyzes the efficiency of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the relationship of stock return patterns on the BSE with those of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The data includes daily closing values of the BSE and S&P 500 Indexes for the period 1979-1990 and bi-weekly closing prices on 27 of the most active stocks on the BSE for the period 1980-1990.
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Shahani, Parmesh. "Disco Jalebi : an ethnographic exploration of Gay Bombay." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42343.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-401).<br>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, politiscape, mediascape, technoscape and ideoscape of urban India in the 1990. Within this thesis, using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis and memoir writing, I attempt to provide various macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a gay man located in Gay Bombay at a particular point of time. Specifically, I explore what being gay means to the members of Gay Bombay and how they negotiate locality and globalization, their sense of identity as well as a feeling of community within its online/offline world. On a broader level, I critically examine the formulation and reconfiguration of contemporary Indian gayness in the light of its emergent cultural, media and political alliances. I realize that Gay Bombay is a community that is imagined and fluid; identity here is both fixed and negotiated, and to be gay in Gay Bombay signifies being 'glocal' - it is not just gayness but Indianized gayness. I further realize that within the various struggles in and around Gay Bombay, what is being negotiated is the very stability of the idea of Indianness. I conclude with a modus vivendi - my draft manifesto for the larger queer movement that I believe Gay Bombay is an integral part of, and a sincere hope that as the struggle for queer rights enters its exciting new phase, groups like Gay Bombay might be able to cooperate with other queer groups in the country, and march on the path to progress, together.<br>by Parmesh Shahani.<br>S.M.
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Alexander, Emma Catherine. "Child labour in the Bombay presidency, 1850-1920." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284002.
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This dissertation argues that the identity of the child in late colonial India was primarily that of a labourer. The institutional functioning of family and the social organisation of caste have obscured the history of childhood in the subcontinent, and as a result, the history of child labour remains unwritten. However, in the mid-nineteenth century the colonial state introduced new legislation, institutions and social practices which identified the child labourer as an individual. The thesis analyses the contribution of child labour to the household and to agricultural economy of the Bombay Presidency, and emphasises the importance of familial labour patterns. Such patterns continued in the urban setting, shaping the child's experience of work, receiving wages and contributing to the family income, although migrant families were constituted differently from their rural counterparts. Through an analysis of factory legislation, the emergence of the child as the centre of debates concerning industrial development is traced. Investigation and regulation of factory labour necessitated the definition of the child by the colonial state. However, the regulatory regime was frequently evaded; systems of registration and certification and violation were abused, and the colonial state did little to enforce laws concerning the hours worked by children. Moreover, factory children suffered from a disproportionate number of accidents in the dangerous industrial environment. These developments are set in the context of living conditions outside the factory: crises involving housing, diet, health, death, opium, alcohol, and possible destitution determined the everyday survival of children in the city. The colonial state's discourse of child protection involved state utilisation of mission orphanages. Fear over juvenile delinquency in industrialising Bombay led to the institutionalisation of child labour in reformatories. Finally, the thesis examines the emergence of the child in the context of the educational debates of the nineteenth century.
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Weinstein, Gabriel Cydulka. "Bombay Central: A Journey Into Indian Higher Education." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1368535660.
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Bilkha, Shubika. "Stories of the cities by the sea : representing society through fiction from Bombay and Karachi /." Connect to online version, 2006. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2006/134.pdf.
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Thomas, Katharine Rosemary Clifton. "Bombay before Bollywood : the history and significance of fantasy and stunt film genres in Bombay cinema of the pre-Bollywood era." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2016. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/q154z/bombay-before-bollywood-the-history-and-significance-of-fantasy-and-stunt-film-genres-in-bombay-cinema-of-the-pre-bollywood-era.
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This PhD by Published Work comprises nine essays and a 10,000-word commentary. Eight of these essays were published (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 conventional focus on India’s more respectable genres, the so-called ‘socials’ and ‘mythologicals’, and foregrounds instead the ‘magic and fighting films’ – the fantasy and stunt genres – of the B- and C-circuits in the decades before and immediately after India’s independence. Drawing on an extensive body of my own field research that has spanned more than three decades, the essays also indicate how the visceral attractions of these fantastical B- and C-circuit films migrated into Bombay’s mainstream A-circuit cinema of the 1970s and 1980s. The project draws on and analyses a variety of archival traces – from silent film fragments, shooting scripts, newspaper advertisements, memoirs, posters and publicity stills to full-length movies, gossip and my own ethnographic field-notes from the 1980s and early 1990s. The project’s central argument is that the B- and C-circuit ‘magic and fighting’ films were more significant than has previously been recognised: (i) they influenced the development of film form in India throughout the decades, and especially in the 1970s/80s ‘masala’ era; (ii) they engaged with modernity just as much as – but in different ways from – the A-grade socials in the pre- and early post-independence era. I conclude that alongside nationalist orthodoxies, this significant stream of Bombay cinema has always revelled in cultural hybridity, borrowing voraciously from global popular culture and engaging with transcultural flows of cosmopolitan modernity and postmodernity.
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Mishra, Vrinda Uday 1963. "Decolonising the Raj : Bombay under provincial autonomy, 1937-1939." Monash University, Faculty of Arts, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5647.
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Kaushik, Bhaumik. "The emergence of the Bombay film industry : 1913-1936." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391049.
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Halsall, Eleanor Anne. "The Indo-German beginnings of Bombay talkies, 1925-1939." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2016. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23806/.
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Kapila, Shruti. "The making of colonial psychiatry Bombay presidency, 1849-1940 /." Thesis, Online version, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.269728.
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Quien, Alexandra. "Mutations identitaires à Mumbai : analyse de trois entreprises de restauration collective." Paris, EHESS, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EHES0210.
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L'étude de trois entreprises de restauration collective, localisées à Mumbai en Inde, a permis d'explorer deux domaines, le travail et l'alimentation, et de saisir, à travers eux, la façon dont se jouent concrètement les relations sociales entre leurs différents acteurs. Dirigés par des femmes et employant en majorité des femmes, ces entreprises, qui ont été fondées dans une perspective caritative ou se réclamant d'utilité publique, regroupent des individus aux profils très différenciés autant sur le plan social, culturel et économique. La première entreprise, qui a servi de pivot à ce travail, touche un milieu populaire strictement hindou et maharashtrien : sa cuisine défend le maintien de spécialités gastronomiques locales. La deuxième entreprise,qui propose des mets sophistiqués inspirés de la cuisine européenne, a aussi donné l'occasion d'étudier une situation où travaillent ensemble des individus de communautés religieuses différentes et en particulier la minorité parsie de Mumbai. Le troisième établissement présente un autre cas de figure : offrant un contraste entre une direction, qui appartient à l'élite brahmane occidentalisée, et des employées en majorité de basse caste, il apporte aussi un éclairage sur une nouvelle forme de régime inspiré des Etats-Unis, un végétarisme dit "moderne", préconisant le retour à une vie naturelle comme antidote à la vie urbaine. Comparant ces trois situations, la thèse tente de dégager les différentes logiques sociales à l'oeuvre au sein de ces entreprises qui, à travers leur entrecroisement, leur combinaison, voire leur opposition, convergent vers un affaiblissement des marqueurs normatifs et une forme d'autonomisation des rapports sociaux ouvrant sur de nouvelles formes de sociabilité. Cette autonomisation, qui revêt des formes très variées en fonction des individus et des groupes sociaux envisagés, met en avant la diversité des principes hiérarchiques en jeu dans la construction identitaire des acteurs.
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Kidambi, Prashant. "State, society and labour in colonial Bombay, c.1893-1918." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395224.
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Sinha, Siddhant. "Street-side parallels : Bombay : contestation of everyday life with order." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1365785.
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If there is anything that challenges a discussion about architecture, it would be defining architecture. It is too broad a subject to construct any particular opinion and follow on, even while attempting to create an understanding of it at the level within graduate program. For me, in a way, architecture has constantly re-constructed its character and impression, and that by itself becomes its permanent trait vis-a-vis a given place and time. But, it also subtly shifts its prominence from being an object to being an experience, from being permanent to being ephemeral or from being a summation to being a subtraction. At this moment, my pursuit of understanding architecture lies in its subtraction or absence from a collage of variables that compose everyday life.Revisiting Bombay's busy streets after spending a considerable amount of time in the United States was a familiar experience for me, but it quickly helped me recognize and acknowledge constituents of my everyday living (associated with the events of the city) that were immediately subtracted while living in the West. An everyday experienceassociated with the city, like the vending stalls, convenience stores, songs, noise, people, etc. could not be found in cities I visited in the U.S. All these experiences such as eating at food stalls and having a cup of tea on the street-side, buying electronics and latest music albums from a make-shift stall assembled from pieces of wooden planks; or simply walking on the street-side as if it were never a side walk but a festival of attainable consumerism - collectively form an event that is embedded in Bombay's urbanism. Herein, I chose to get up-close with the actors and their created spaces and interview them in order to gain insights into the totality of making a living on the street-side. Additionally, in order to extend my knowledge of architecture, I designed a vending stall that both acknowledges the worlds of the street-side and vendors, even as it is informed by my training as an architect.I am challenged as a graduate student to consider architecture within the context of my everyday life. A whole new dimension of space (of ad-hoc and tactical nature) that has always been there, gradually and randomly shaping my relationship with the city's streets while challenging the order of the city. Although invisibly present all the time, this study has made me more aware of its influence. Hence, I have tried to readdress everyday life on the street-sides within the local and global settings of Bombay, studying events and people associated with it. Looking for a probable architecture on the street-sides of Bombay within the boundaries of the quotidian and the modem realities becomes my thesis.<br>Department of Architecture
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Thakker-Desai, Bayjool. "Health attitudes and personal health-care decisions in Bombay, India." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1992. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2821/.
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Utilisation of medical sources other than the modern Western medicine (Allopathy) is characteristic of most societies. Health-care utilisation studies, in medically pluralistic societies, fall short of providing adequate explanation of how and why different medical sources are used. The present thesis is an attempt to delineate the social psychology of the health-care utilisation behaviour of people in Bombay by concentrating on the interplay between the individual, the social environment and the culture. It, therefore, benefits from disciplines both within and outside mainstream psychology like societal psychology, sociology, anthropology and medicine. The study addresses a twofold question: how are treatment related decisions made and what are their determinants. To answer these questions, an understanding of variables pertaining to the person as well as a consideration of the societal context is necessary. Following a quantitative pilot study, the research involved retrospective data collected with the help of a partially structured questionnaire using a quota sample of 480 Gujarati-speaking adults. The quotas were set for sex, income and illness types. The survey instrument elicited information on predisposing (demographic, social structural, belief and social), enabling (family resources and prior access) and illness (type and manifestation) variables as well as the process of seeking care. The results, highlight that health-care utilisation behaviour in a medically pluralistic setting is not a singular act but a continuously evolving decision-making process wherein sources are used differentially. Typically, the treatment-seeking process began with the use of non-formal sources, followed by an entry into the professional sector, invariably through an Allopathic family doctor. Subsequently, the individuals either revert back to non-formal sources, continue to remain within Allopathy or exhibit an irreversible shift to non-Allopathic formal sources. Accordingly, there exists a need to redefine health-care utilisation behaviour in terms of sequential patterns of usage. These patterns, are determined by individually based variables belonging to all three categories as mentioned above. However, in contrast to certain trends, the effect of demographic, social structural and income variable was very small. Between 18-42% of the respondents within each illness cluster, used two or more formal medical systems. Compared to their counterparts who used only one formal system, the multiple users were more likely to suffer from chronic illnesses, rely on lay advice, prefer non-Allopathic systems and already have an access to non-Allopathic sources of care.
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Jalkanen, Pekka. "Alaska, Bombay ja Billy Boy : jazzkulttuurin murros Helsingissä 1920-Iuvulla /." Helsinki : Hakapaino Oy, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35070671p.
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Ithurbide, Christine. "Géographie de l'art contemporain indien : villes, acteurs et territoires : le cas de Bombay (Inde)." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCC005.
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L'art contemporain indien s'est pleinement inséré dans des dynamiques institutionnelles et marchandes globales au cours des décennies qui ont suivi la libéralisation économique de l'Inde des années 1990. Bombay qui représente depuis la fin du XIXe siècle une capitale commerciale et un carrefour culturel en Asie, s'affirme comme la principale métropole du marché de l'art contemporain indien dont les activités sont regroupées dans le district artistique au sud de la ville. L'objet de cette thèse est d'analyser le processus d'adaptation et de transformation des territoires locaux face à la globalisation de l'art tout en accordant une attention particulière à l'ancrage de ce processus dans un système social local. Au-delà du district artistique, mon approche s'est intéressée à d'autres quartiers et acteurs moins visibles mais indispensables aux activités de l'industrie de l'art contemporain afin de mettre en lumière une globalisation de l'art contemporain « par le bas » et de montrer la continuité entre une économie de l'art mondialisée et une économie informelle. La géographie de l'art proposée s'inscrit au croisement d'une géographie urbaine, industrielle et sociale, accordant par ailleurs une place importante aux travaux de sociologie de l'art et d'anthropologie des mobilités. Cette thèse a ainsi pour ambition de contribuer aux études urbaines en Inde et plus largement aux nouvelles recherches sur les pratiques artistiques et l'économie de l'art dans les Suds<br>Contemporary Indian art has increasingly taken part to global institutional and market dynamics in the decades that followed the economic liberalization of Indian in the 1990s. While representing a commercial capital and a cultural crossroads in Asia since the late XIXth century, Bombay emerged as the leading metropolis for contemporary Indian art market which activities are gathered in the art district in the south of the city. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the process of adaptation and transformation of local territories in response to art globalization whilc focusing on the anchoring the process into a local social system. Beyond the art district, my approach is interested in neighborhoods and actors less visible but essential to contemporary art industry activities. The purpose is to highlight a globalization of contemporary art "from bellow" and underline the continuity between globalized art economy and informai economy. Situated at the crossroad of urban, industrial and social geography, the geography of art proposed is also influenced by researches in sociology of art and anthropology of mobility. This thesis has the ambition to contribute to urban studies in India and more broadly to researches on artistic practices and economy of art in the South countries
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Runkle, Susan Catherine Wadley Susan Snow. "Becoming cosmopolitan Constructing gender and power in post-liberalization Bombay (India) /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Khanna, Stuti. "A tale of two cities : Joyce's Dublin and Salman Rushdie's Bombay." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443841.
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Campbell, Charles P. "Bombay Scarcity-Relief Policies in the Age of Reform, 1820-40." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2196.
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This thesis examines the influence of certain British reformist ideologies on the scarcity-relief policies of the British colonial Government of Bombay from 1820 to 1840. It outlines the laissez-faire and utilitarian ideologies of relevance to scarcity-relief and assesses the extent to which these ideologies influenced Bombay’s policies toward the grain trade, charity, public works, agricultural loans, land revenue, and grain duties, during the 1823-5, 1831-5, and 1838-9 droughts. The thesis demonstrates that ideological debate and policy formation engaged officials at various levels within the colonial administration, and was not simply the concern of the Bombay Council. The thesis argues that while reformist ideologies had a genuine effect on the stated beliefs of many of Bombay’s officials, fiscal expediency and, to a lesser extent, humanitarian concern, also contributed to the formation of Bombay policy. It contends that these other factors were sometimes in harmony, and other times at odds, with the new ideologies coming from Britain. It finds that each of Bombay’s scarcity-relief policies was shaped by reformist ideology, but to a varying degree, and at different times, depending on the resistance to changes in policy from conservatives within the administration. This resistance, it argues, was in turn determined by the extent to which officials perceived each policy to be a foundation of the Government’s financial well-being. The findings of this thesis support the consensus among most historians of Indian subsistence crises that reformist ideologies of Britain began to influence the scarcity-relief policies of British Indian administrations in the early nineteenth century.
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Krishnan, Shekhar Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Empire's metropolis : money time & space in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1930." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86283.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2013.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>The thesis utilises newly available legal and municipal archives 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 of India and Asia's largest industrial cities after the First World War. Separate chapters explore the history of railway and telegraph networks, standardisation and time-keeping, land acquisition and valuation, cadastral surveying and property registration, and the urban built environment. From the perspective of the colonial city, the history of these formations looks less like the smooth unfolding of singular standards of money, time or space, than a protracted war of position fought out across a century by experts, elites and the masses. This thesis seeks to deepen the social and political history of urbanization in South Asia beyond concepts of colonial technology transfer or nationalist resistance by examining the everyday politics of stock and real estate speculation, public clocks, land and private property, maps and topographical surveys, and buildings and streets in colonial Bombay. These "modern" technologies of calculation, coordination and control in the urban environment both created and depended on new scales of power and capital accumulation, or particular configurations of industrial technologies, civic institutions and urban space.<br>by Shekhar Krishnan.<br>Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS)
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Jha, Meeta Rani. "The emotional politics of Bombay cinema and the British Asian imaginary." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432009.
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Caru, Vanessa. "Le logement des travailleurs et la question sociale : Bombay (1850-1950)." Paris 7, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA070071.
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Cette thèse étudie la fabrique et l'évolution d'une question politique, le logement des travailleurs, à partir du cas de la ville de Bombay entre 1850 et 1950. Elle examine comment et pourquoi les autorités coloniales britanniques, puis le parti du Congrès à partir des années 1930, ont choisi de faire de ce problème le principal terrain du traitement de l'agitation sociale. Elle analyse les objectifs poursuivis par les différentes politiques concernant le logement populaire (programmes de construction, lois de contrôle des loyers, etc. ), ainsi que leur mise en œuvre concrète (moyens de financement, principaux agents, limites rencontrées, etc. ). L'intervention des autorités sur cette question a favorise l'émergence de nouvelles revendications et de nouveaux modes d'organisation chez les travailleurs, avec la création de syndicats de locataires. Une large partie de ce travail est dédiée à l'étude de ces mobilisations, et notamment du rôle qu'y jouent les syndicats et les partis ouvriers. Une telle démarche vise à compléter l'analyse des formes et des processus de la politisation des travailleurs, qui jusqu'à présent s'était surtout limitée à la sphère du travail et à mieux comprendre l'implantation locale de certains mouvements politiques<br>This dissertation studies the making and evolution of a political question, namely workers housing, with Bombay as its case-study during the period 1850 to 1950. It examines how and why the British colonial authorities, and then the Congress party from the 1930s onwards, chose to make this issue the principal terrain on which social agitation was handled. It analyses the objectives pursued by the different policies concerning popular housing (construction programmes, rent control laws etc), as well as their concrete implementation (means of financing, principal agents, limits encountered, etc. ). The authorities intervention on this question encouraged the emergence of new demands and new modes of organisation by the workers, especially with the creation of tenants' unions. A large part of this work is dedicated to studying these mobilisations, and notably the role played by the unions and workers1 parties. This perspective aims to fill in some of the gaps in the analysis of forms and processes of politicisation of Indian workers, which hitherto has been limited to the sphere of work and to advance our understanding of the local implantation of certain political movements
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Banerjee, Sikata. "Masculine Hinduism, violence and the Shiv Sena : the Bombay riots of 1993 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10776.
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Patel, Simin. "Cultural intermediaries in a colonial city : the Parsis of Bombay, c. 1860-1921." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4e29885b-7c9b-4785-8a62-1549709542f8.
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This dissertation traces a series of cultural negotiations through which the Parsis, a community of ethnic Zoroastrians, fashioned themselves into ‘modern’ citizens in the setting of colonial Bombay. It examines the ways Parsis negotiated change in a number of personal spheres such as their dress, deportment, dining and domesticity as well as the ways the community managed internal groupings such as Persian Zoroastrian refugees and the Parsi poor in the landscape of Bombay. It proposes that it was this unusual, simultaneous fashioning at the levels of the personal and the broader community, that turned the series of negotiations into a project of self-fashioning. It argues that it is in these cultural and intra-communal domains of self-fashioning that we see some of the more difficult negotiations, as well as the inner tensions, that the Parsi model of modernity entailed at the different levels of Parsi society.
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Ridda, Maria. "A kind of India happens everywhere : Bombay-London-New York and beyond." Thesis, University of Kent, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.587526.
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Desai, Vandana. "Aspects of community participation among slum dwellers in achieving housing in Bombay." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d4839cdd-effd-4ff2-975a-9a73c7b31d75.
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This thesis is concerned with the housing and service needs of the poor (slum dwellers) in Bombay and how they are articulated and satisfied. It discusses how the poor perceive the constraints on slum servicing and improvement, their involvement in community organizations, and the role the community and its leaders play in influencing state action. Since housing and servicing issues directly impinge on the interests of politicians and bureaucrats as well as on those of the poor, patterns of provision mirror closely the nature of the relationship between the poor and how political and administrative power operates at various levels. Chapter 1 provides the research aims and objectives while Chapter 2 reviews the literature on community participation. Chapter 3 on Bombay places housing development in context and also serves as background study to the thesis. This research studies three different slum settlements housing migrants to Bombay. Two surveys of these three slum settlements were carried out, involving interviews with 135 households. Chapter 4 describes the characteristics of these households, while chapters 5, 6, and 7 give the arguments of the thesis. It is shown that, despite an established system of representative community organisations and a pro-participation rhetoric in bureaucratic discourse, most slum dwellers are excluded from participating in decision-making. A patron-client relationship exists between politicians, bureaucrats and community leaders, both in determining the community leaders' power as well as the level of services and physical benefits that he/she could win for the slum community. Leaders are generally better educated, better employed, more prosperous and highly motivated than most of their community. The NGO in this study has acted mainly as intermediary between the government and the slum-dwellers.
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Brito, Olivier. "Tourisme international et réinvention de la mendicité : portrait de mendicités « pédocentrées » à Bangkok et à Bombay." Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100028.
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Les touristes internationaux incarnent une élite cosmopolite pour qui la distance géographique ne constitue plus une barrière. Les mendiants représentent quant à eux une population assignée à une immobilité sociale. Bien que l’interaction entre ces deux figures soit symbolique, il s’agira dans cette thèse de ne pas réduire les mendiants au statut de victimes passives d’une mondialisation hégémonique. Nous serons au contraire focalisés sur le versant dynamique et créatif de la mendicité. Terrain : Notre recherche répond à une démarche comparative. Le premier terrain nommé « Gateway of India » se trouve en Inde. Gateway of India peut être considéré comme la principale attraction touristique de la ville de Bombay. Notre deuxième terrain, qui se trouve à Bangkok (Thaïlande), correspond au plus grand centre prostitutionnel du pays connu sous le nom de « Nana ». Méthode : Notre recherche combine ethnographie et Grounded Theory. Le travail de terrain a été mené sur une période de 3 ans. Les données ethnographiques sont composées d’entretiens et d’observations. Notre travail comporte également une dimension quantitative reposant sur une échelle psychométrique que nous avons élaborée à partir de nos hypothèses de terrain. Résultats : Après avoir décrit les différentes logiques de mendicité et de don, nous avons entrepris un travail de redéfinition de la mendicité en distinguant les politiques, les stratégies et les techniques de mendicité. Nous avons par la suite entrepris un travail de modélisation. Dans notre premier modèle intitulé « modèle de la mendicité supportable » nous identifions les critères pouvant rendre une mendicité acceptable. Notre deuxième modèle intitulé « transition de la mendicité face au tourisme international » est une schématisation des transformations de la mendicité face au tourisme. Ce modèle est fondamental car il introduit l’idée d’une mendicité « pédocentrée » : les enfants servent de variable d’ajustement permettant d’adapter la mendicité face au tourisme. Cette thèse s’achève par la présentation de notre concept final intitulé « pédodéterritorialisation de la mendicité ». Ce concept décrit d’une part la situation dans laquelle les répertoires des nouvelles mendicités sont élaborés pour cadrer avec les valeurs occidentales de l’enfance. D’autre part, ce concept renvoie au processus de « reterritorialisation » qui définira les nouveaux contours de l’enfance<br>International tourists represent an elite group for whom the geographic distance is no longer a barrier. On the other hand, beggars are considered to be assigned to physical and social immobility. The interaction between these two characters is highly symbolic. However, it is necessary not to reduce beggars to passive victims of globalization. We have instead decided to focus on the dynamic and creative side of begging. Fields: Our research is based on a comparative approach. Our first field "Gateway of India" is located in India and can be considered as the main tourist attraction of the city of Bombay. Our second field, which is located in Bangkok, is the largest center of prostitution in Thailand and is known as "Nana". Method: Our research combines ethnography and Grounded Theory. Fieldwork was conducted over a period of three years. Ethnographic data consist of interviews and observations. Our work also includes quantitative data based on a psychometric scale built in consideration to our field hypothesis. Results: After describing the different logics of begging and giving, we redefined begging distinguishing panhandling policies, strategies and techniques. We subsequently elaborated models of begging. In our first model named "sustainable begging" we identified conditions under which begging can be considered as an acceptable activity. In our second model named "Begging transitions due to international tourism" we mapped the panhandling transformations caused by international tourism. We introduced the idea of "child-centered begging”considering children as an adjustment variable enabling entire communities to adapt to the new resources offered by international tourism. This thesis concludes with the presentation of our final concept entitled the “paedo-deterritorialization of begging”. This concept first describes the invention of new begging frameworks developed to fit the Western values of childhood. On the other hand, this concept refers to the process of "reterritorialization" that will define the new boundaries of childhood
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Gill, Davinder Kaur. "Infrastructure and development : a comparison of the ports of Shanghai and Mumbai." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609368.
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Sliwka, Anne. "Transplanting liberal education : higher education in 19th century Bombay Presidency, India (1821-1904)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267493.
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Aspengren, Henrik C. "Social imperialism and how it was applied in the Bombay Presidency, 1895-1925." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2010. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29294/.
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This thesis traces how British imperialism, as an ideology of empire, developed a social dimension by the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on archival sources, the thesis explores what motivated British social imperialism, how knowledge and political thought operated within it, and how it translated into local colonial policy in the Bombay Presidency, British India, between 1895-1925. The study uses Michel Foucault's concept of bio-politics to engage the ways in which emerging social liberalism, and British sociology, enabled the conceptualisation and politicisation of a distinct social domain, and helped putting 'the social' into British imperialism. Sociology and social liberalism defined the social in vague terms. Yet, I will show, it was seen as key to stability and progress. It was perceived by contemporaries as contingent of, but not determined by, industrial capitalism and the emergence of modem industrial society. Liberalism, the thesis points out, had always been closely related to British imperialism in general, and the British administration of India in particular. The introduction of a social element in liberalism did not end that relationship; rather, it enabled a shift in preferred domain of intervention from the moral to the social. I outline what constituted social liberalism and how it influenced imperial thought. Sociology, in turn, delineated the social domain and made it known. I revisit turn of the twentieth-century debates within British sociology and trace how these debates informed the official introduction of sociological research into colonial India. The study examines various angles of how social imperialism translated into the Presidency. It shows how administrators began to frame interventions through social-political language, and how they utilised sociological methodology and research. It analyses actual social interventions of sanitation, education, and housing. 1 suggest that social interventions, evoked in the name of stability and progress, formed as measures to draw on and channel movements and tendencies within colonial society, while simultaneously promoting the state as vehicle for reform. Social interventions widened the scope of colonial state action, and so limited society and market based approaches to conditions of life.
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Angueletou-Marteau, Anastasia. "Accès à l'eau en périphérie : petits opérateurs privés et pauvreté hydraulique domestique : enjeux de gouvernance dans les zones périurbaines de Mumbai, Inde." Phd thesis, Grenoble 2, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00441281.
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La présente thèse porte sur les politiques de l'eau dans les petites et moyennes villes des territoires périurbains de Mumbai. Le point de départ de ce travail de recherche est le constat que le monopole public est défaillant sur les villes périurbaines de Mumbai. Une diversité des modes d'approvisionnement coexistent pour l'approvisionnement des ménages. Nous cherchons à montrer que les petites et moyennes villes indiennes sont propices au développement d'un ensemble de modalités d'accès à l'eau, publiques et privées, gratuites et payantes. Notre volonté est d'expliquer les raisons de cette diversité d'accès à l'eau, ainsi que la manière dont les ménages satisfont leurs besoins. Ces travaux de recherche s'appuient sur une étude de terrain (questionnaires ménages et entretiens semi-directifs) dans six villes des territoires périurbains de Mumbai. Nous avons mobilisé les apports de la nouvelle économie institutionnelle afin d'examiner les modes d'approvisionnement complémentaires au réseau municipal. Dans ce sens, les institutions (règles) formelles (service public, vente de l'eau) et informelles (accès coutumier) constituent des mécanismes institutionnels régulateurs en situation d'incertitude. Le secteur public échoue à fournir de l'eau à l'ensemble de la population étudiée. Face à la fragmentation et à la différenciation du service sur les territoires de l'étude, les arrangements institutionnels formels et informels du secteur de l'eau révèlent l'existence d'une multiplicité des modalités d'approvisionnement sur ces territoires. La multiplication et la diversification des sources d'approvisionnement est la norme d'approvisionnement sur les territoires périurbains. Nous cherchons à identifier sous quelles conditions les arrangements complémentaires d'approvisionnement en eau potable constituent une réponse à la demande domestique et comment ils participent à une meilleure organisation et gestion du service. Ce travail de thèse présente deux résultats majeurs. Le premier concerne la satisfaction de la demande en eau domestique dans les villes périurbaines et le deuxième porte sur la gouvernance de l'eau dans ces territoires. La thèse apporte des éclaircissements concernant le comportement hydrique des ménages et leurs choix d'approvisionnement selon les arrangements complémentaires qu'ils adoptent. Les travaux de recherche que nous avons menés montrent que ce qu'un individu perçoit de son état de pauvreté hydraulique diffère souvent de la classification définie par les normes nationales et internationales en vigueur. Nous avons élaboré un indicateur de la pauvreté en eau qui reflète la perception des ménages quant à leur état de richesse ou de pauvreté en eau. Nous ne pouvons pas dresser un comportement domestique uniforme dans les villes étudiées. Il existe en réalité une grande atomisation des comportements hydrauliques et cela constitue une des spécificités des petites et moyennes villes périurbaines. Les arrangements complémentaires adoptés reflètent des niveaux de pauvreté hydraulique différents. Face à cet état de pauvreté hydraulique, les ménages procèdent à une hiérarchisation de leurs besoins, multiplient leurs sources d'approvisionnement et développent des stratégies compensatoires pour s'assurer un service régulier et de bonne qualité. La thèse porte un intérêt particulier aux formes de gouvernance de l'eau dans les petites et moyennes villes périurbaines. L'analyse des interactions entre les opérateurs publics et privés et les usagers des villes étudiées n'est pas suffisante pour comprendre le partage et la gestion locale de l'eau. En dépit des contrats formels entre les usagers et les opérateurs, la gouvernance de l'eau s'organise autour de relations informelles. Les élus municipaux au pouvoir, les entreprises de camions-citernes et les propriétaires fonciers sont les acteurs qui en réalité structurent le secteur de l'eau dans les villes périurbaines. La gouvernance de l'eau s'articule autour de ce lobby local qui contrôle le pouvoir politique local, l'accès à l'eau et à la terre, et donne les orientations des politiques locales de l'eau. Des rapports de force inégaux et conflictuels organisent les relations entre les acteurs locaux. Avec la volonté des autorités locales de tendre vers une commercialisation croissante du service, il faudra examiner les conditions qui rendent possibles les partenariats entre autorités locales et opérateurs privés ainsi que les arrangements institutionnels associés. Faire des petits opérateurs privés des acteurs à part entière de la nouvelle gouvernance urbaine de l'eau nécessite de négocier des contrats formels entre les deux parties, ainsi que de revoir le rôle de chaque acteur, afin qu'il soit plus compétent, indépendant, transparent et redevable de ses actions. Notre travail est structuré en sept chapitres (un chapitre introductif et trois parties). Le chapitre introductif présente l'environnement institutionnel du secteur d'approvisionnement urbain en eau de l'Inde, ainsi que le niveau de service, et identifie le poids des facteurs exogènes qui influent sur le niveau d'accès à l'eau potable. La première partie porte sur les arrangements institutionnels d'approvisionnement en eau potable existants sur les territoires périurbains de Mumbai. Il s'agit à la fois de l'approvisionnement par le réseau municipal, et d'autres modalités publiques ou privées, gratuites ou payantes. Malgré l'existence d'une multiplication des sources d'approvisionnement, les ménages urbains souffrent d'un certain degré de pauvreté hydraulique. La deuxième partie explique la manière dont ils appréhendent leur accès à l'eau, à travers un indicateur de la perception de la pauvreté hydraulique que nous avons élaboré, et présente les stratégies compensatoires domestiques. La troisième partie traite des enjeux de la gouvernance urbaine de l'eau dans les territoires périurbains de Mumbai. L'objectif est à la fois d'identifier les caractéristiques endogènes qui influent sur la qualité de la gouvernance dans les territoires étudiés et de proposer des changements au sein des institutions et des organisations de l'eau, susceptibles d'améliorer l'accès à cette ressource.
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Sarkar, Aditya. "Regulated labour, unruly workers : the making of industrial relations in late nineteenth-century Bombay." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594262.
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This dissertation explores the making of industrial relations in colonial Bombay, India's largest manufacturing centre, between the 1870s and the end of the 1890s. The accent is on the cotton textile industry which sprang up in the second half of the nineteenth century, and came to dominate the city. The thesis is divided into three large sections. First, it considers the ideological, commercial, and political contexts of protective factory legislation for India, which was fashioned into a Factory Act in 1881, and revised in 1891. It examines the relationships of factory law in India with precedents in Britain; with the work of campaigners for social reform and 'improvement' in both metropole and colony; and with the commercial antagonism that emerged in the mid- 1870s between the cotton textile industry of Bombay and of Lancashire, its principal competitor. The second section considers the implications of a regime of protective factory regulation for labour relations in Bombay. It examines in particular the dynamics of factory inspection, which both revealed and released significant tensions within the structure of relations between state, capital and labour. It also explores the debates and controversies around the employment of children in mills, and the ambiguities of their nomination as vulnerable subjects of factory law. The final section of the dissertation expands the question of industrial relations beyond the work of law, and describes the transition towards a more combative, fractious set of relations between employers, state and labourers in the 1890s, indexed by the growing frequency of strikes. This culminates in a detailed exploration of the temporary but significant transformation of industrial relations at the end of the century, when Bombay was struck by the global bubonic plague pandemic. The dissertation thus traces a movement from relations encased by the administration of law to relations marked by confrontational industrial politics.
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Das, S. M. "A market of emotions : Bombay cinema, Punjabi culture and the politics of popular entertainment." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598286.
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This thesis is multi-sited. Its first site of exploration is the world’s largest film industry, the commercial cinema world of Bombay, India. Through ethnography, it studies the processes by which commercial Hindi-Urdu films are made. It explores the history of this cinema industry along with an analysis of film professionals’ views on Bombay cinema, its roles within the Indian nation and the unique public sphere formed by it, its hegemonic and subversive practices, factors that influence its content and the ways both the Indian State and processes of globalisation have impacted the Bombay film industry. At another site, a Punjabi village in northern India, the thesis explores how popular Bombay cinema impacts viewers’ notions of identity, self, community and others. The thesis discusses how commercial Bombay cinema is influenced both by the cultural and historical backdrop to its functioning as well as by contemporary socio-political and economic occurrences. The thesis specifically examines how through the 1990s, India’s economic liberalisation, experience of militant Hindu nationalism and political movements around caste identity have affected popular Bombay cinema. The thesis discusses the predominance of ‘Punjabi culture’ in popular Bombay cinema of the 1990s onwards. It explores the main symbols of such cinematic culture, namely prosperity, vigour, manliness, joy, conspicuous consumption, Hindu ritualism and co-existence between tradition and modernity. It studies the history of such symbols and explores the impact of such cinematic symbolism upon Punjabi viewers. Specifically, this thesis discusses ethnography in a Sikh Punjabi village in India, examining how Jat, Backward and Scheduled Caste Sikhs negotiate cinematic <i>Punjabiyat</i>. The thesis thus delves into complex notions of purity, pollution and power, economic status, national belonging, cultural identity and diverse role-playing, as well as the significant intersections these make with ‘entertaining’ Bombay cinema.
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Sugarman, Michael William. "Slums, squatters and urban redevelopment schemes in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore, 1894-1960." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/276904.
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My research examines the interconnected histories of urbanism and urban development in port cities across South and Southeast Asia. Chapter one examines the effects of the third plague pandemic on the quotidian livelihoods and 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 conditions of the poor across British South and Southeast Asia. Chapter two considers the works of the Bombay Improvement Trust, Rangoon Development Trust, and Singapore Improvement Trust through the early decades of the twentieth century and analyses how an imperial urbanism based on a ‘Bombay model’ translated to Singapore and other port cities across the Indian Ocean world. Chapter three considers the consequences of the second wave of ‘indirect’ attacks on urban slums on an evolving imperial urbanism in Bombay, Rangoon, and Singapore. While previous chapters examined the emergence of an imperial urbanism centred on Bombay’s example, chapter four considers the extent to which Bombay remained central to this urbanism during the late 1930s and Second World War. Analysing the divergent consequences of patterns of urban growth in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore throughout the late-1930s, this chapter considers late-colonial efforts to house the urban poor as well as the extent to which the war recast the post-war housing situation. Chapter five contextualises post-war rhetoric of economic and urban development in Hong Kong and Singapore within narratives of pre-war urban ‘improvement’. In connecting pre-war and post-war approaches to accommodating the urban poor, the final chapter considers the reorientation of earlier circulations of knowledge around urban poverty in port cities and its implications for emerging post-colonial regional, national and urban identities.
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Nordström, Säfsten Lisa. "Incremental Diversity : Building for people migrating into cities." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-71657.
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If we don't take care of how people are moving into cities, it will continue happen in the form of slums. This project is an attempt, a start in the search of finding a typeology that we clearly need.
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Surenkumar, Yamini. "A qualitative study of the Individual Education Plan (IEP) in Worcestershire (UK) and its applicability to Mumbai (India)." Thesis, Coventry University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313130.
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Sircar, Ajanta. "Framing the nation : languages of #modernity' in India." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361480.
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Belle, Marie-Charlotte. "Analyse historique du processus de mégapolisation, étude comparative de São Paulo et Mumbai dans la seconde moitié du XXème siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040233.
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Cette thèse étudie le processus historique de mégapolisation de São Paulo au Brésil et Mumbai (ex-Bombay) en Inde depuis l’accélération urbaine mondiale dans les années 1950 jusqu’ à nos jours. L’objectif est de dégager les mécanismes de la mégapolisation à travers l’examen de ces deux métropoles du Sud. Chacune est donc analysée à travers trois facteurs stratégiques interreliés qui déclenchent et soutiennent leur développement, à savoir le contexte politique, économique et urbain. En tant que villes globales elles deviennent un enjeu pour leurs nations, et plus généralement pour les pays en développement, Elles soutiennent l’émergence de ces pays ainsi qu’un autre modèle de développement. Les examiner revêt donc un caractère stratégique. A l’heure de la métropolisation de nos systèmes urbains, cette analyse prend une dimension toute particulière. En effet, bien que le contexte notamment politique et de développement, de São Paulo et Mumbai diverge des autres grandes villes à vocation mondiale de l’hémisphère Nord, leurs exemples apportent un éclairage instructif sur les écueils et les réponses mis en oeuvre pour améliorer cette voie urbaine de développement<br>This thesis has been exploring the historical process of megapolization (overdevelopment) of São Paulo in Brazil and Mumbai (ex-Bombay) in India since the world urban acceleration in the 1950s until today. The objective is to identify the mechanisms of megapolization through the examination of these two Southern cities. Each one is analyzed through three interrelated strategic factors: the political, economic and urban context that trigger and sustain their development. Global cities are strategic places for their nations and more generally for the developing countries. They support the emergence of these territories territories and an other development path. Considering them is therefore a strategic issue. At the time of the cities metropolization, this analysis takes on a particular dimension. Although, the São Paulo and Mumbai context and development diverge from other world cities in the northern hemisphere, their example sheds light on the pitfalls and answers to improve this urban development
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Ghose, Ipshita. "Fictions of the postcolonial city : Reading Bombay-Mumai as the Locus Classicus' of modernity in India." Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534335.
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Hall-Matthews, David Nicolas John. "Famine process and famine policy : a case study of Ahmednagar District, Bombay Presidency, India 1870-84." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5e072387-d56c-496a-a90a-2ee2f31c29dd.
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Ahmednagar District, in Bombay Presidency, was affected - along with much of South India - by a major drought in 1876-78, leading to famine relief by the Government of Bombay and considerable emigration and mortality. Recent literature, however, has suggested that famine is a complex, human and long-drawn-out process, rather than a sudden, natural phenomenon. This thesis seeks to identify that process among poor peasants in Ahmednagar between 1870 and 1884. It does so by examining their factors of production - land, capital and, to a lesser extent, labour - as well as markets in credit and the cheap foodgrains they produced, in order to locate both their chronic food insecurity and forces increasing their vulnerability over time. In this context, emphasis is given to the relationship of the British colonial state to the peasantry. The agrarian policies and agendas of the Government of Bombay are explored with regard to peasant vulnerability. It is argued that it failed to invest in production and infrastructure, while forcing peasants into competitive markets in which they were ill-equipped to compete. Despite a laissez-faire philosophy, it intervened to first promote, then penalise, usurious moneylenders, reducing the availability of credit. It also taxed peasants directly through the inflexible ryotwari land revenue system. In the crisis, peasants were not treated as famine victims and discouraged from accepting relief. The state can therefore be said to have contributed to the process of famine. It is argued that the propriety of colonial famine policies - and especially of other policies in the agricultural sector that undermined peasant food security - was widely discussed at different levels within the British state, from assistant collectors in Ahmednagar to secretaries of state in London. Attention is given to the way these debates were conducted and the process of policy-making analysed, concluding that the colonial hierarchy made it difficult for officers to be responsive to local problems.
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Edvardsson, Jacob. "Recycle Dharavi : A sanitary upgrade." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-71660.
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Two things struck me during my time in Dharavi. The first was the bad public health and the second the ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit of the people who lived there. The health issues, a result of inadequate sanitation, can be directly linked to the shortage of toilets. For every toilet there are a thousand users and because of this over a quarter of the people in Dharavi choose instead to publicly defecate. On the other side of the coin however, stands Dharavi’s remarkable recycling industry and in Dharavi alone 80% of Mumbai’s plastic waste is recycled and given new use. The concept revolves around recyclability and combining industry with sanitation; recycling the produced waste and generating income. If there’s a way to profit from human waste it is likely that people would go to certain lengths to collect the necessary material. By removing the waste and converting it to humanure, positive side effect would include cleaner streets and in general a healthier population. The idea is therefore to build a waste management facility where income is generated through the collected waste and used to improve the surrounding community. In this proposed space you can go to the toilet, throw away your trash and food waste and even use the functions provided to do chores or simply relax. The food and human waste from toilets could be used as fertilizer and sold for a profit or perhaps even used as fuel. The garbage could be collected and sorted on spot and then sold onwards for further refinement.
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Gabriel, Reuben Louis. "Missionary encounters in nineteenth-century Bombay : the life, work, and theology of John Wilson in critical perspective." Thesis, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.732948.
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Yildiz, Hatice. "A comparative history of gender and factory labour in Ottoman Bursa and colonial Bombay, c.1850-1910." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273244.
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This thesis explores the gendered dynamics of industrialisation in the late Ottoman Empire and British India. It examines the ways in which gendered notions of skill, waged work, domesticity and technology shaped employment patterns, labour processes and politics 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 low-paid occupations within and outside the factory brought down wages and provided flexibility to mechanised production. This flexibility was key to the survival and rapid growth of the export-oriented industries in Bursa and Bombay. The common mechanisms of women's marginalisation in the workforce included segregation, masculinisation of machinery, vertical organisation of trade unions, male-controlled recruitment processes and the household division of labour. The extent to which women influenced employment practices depended on the availability of external mediation as well as their means to subvert notions of victimhood, domesticity, honour and duty. In connecting the Ottoman and Indian paths to industrialisation from a gender perspective, the project destabilises male-centric approaches to the global history of economy, labour and technology.