Author’s Note
Introduction
1. A Joint Enterprise
2. Anglo-Indian Architecture and the Meaning of Its Styles
3. The Biography of an Unknown Native Engineer
4. Dividing Practices in Bombay’s Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums
5. An Unforeseen Landscape of Contradictions
6. Of Gods and Mortal Heroes: Conundrums of the Secular Landscape
of Colonial
Bombay
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preeti Chopra is associate professor of visual culture studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
"A Joint Enterprise is an ambitious, original, and interesting book
on a valuable topic. Preeti Chopra provides unique interpretations
of, among other things, the Indian reception and interpretation of
the neo-Gothic architecture of the colonial regime." —Anthony King,
author of Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism,
Identity
"A Joint Enterprise is an extremely able and well-informed survey
of an interesting subject." —The Times Literary Supplement
"Chopra’s monograph is a true contribution to bringing
architectural practice and perception into the history of Bombay
city." —Journal of Asian Studies
"Offers a skillfully crafted and nuanced reading of the colonial
experience that challenges the polemics of racial and cultural
segregation while articulating far more complex hierarchies of
power." —Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
"A Joint Enterprise provides a fabulous history of colonial
domination and resistance through architectural and urban
development in colonial Bombay." —South Asia: Journal of South
Asian Studies
"One ends Chopra’s engaging book wondering if the first major dents
to colonial Bombay’s famed cosmopolitanism came from these
segregating medical and housing policies rather than events like
the Hindu-Muslim Riots of 1893." —Hamazor "Offers a new perspective
on urban social history." —Enterprise and Society "Vital to
understanding the architectural genealogy of the city."— Buildings
& Landscape
"This book is a valuable addition to the literature on South Asian
urbanism. The ‘joint public realm’ is a useful effort to
conceptualize the manner in which Indians engaged with notions like
the public." —Journal of the Economic and Social History of the
Orient
"Preeti Chopra’s A Joint Enterprise is a detailed, well-researched,
illuminating work that makes a clear argument: ‘colonial’ cities
are far less ‘colonial’ than we imagine. [It] is a major
accomplishment, clearly the product of intensive research over many
years by a scholar deeply committed to and knowledgeable in her
chosen field." —Interventions
"As ambitious as it is imaginative, this book combines critical
perspectives on the materiality and visibility of the modern city
with an insightful examination of the agency of both colonial
rulers and indigenous subjects. Elegantly presented and effectively
developed." —Victorian Studies
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