|9780822968184|Home Improvements and Urban Ideals in Twentieth-Century Bombay|Housing Modern India explores how ideals of house and home provided crucial sites for the negotiation of urban modernity during the late colonial and early independence periods. Focusing on Bombay, the cosmopolitan metropolis that helped define the promise and perils of urban life on the subcontinent, Abigail McGowan places concerns about domestic space at the heart of urban history. Efforts to remake Bombay prioritized reshaping homes to advance modern ideals of sanitation, community, consumption, and national identity. The city was constructed, in other words, not just through the efforts of planning regimes and…

|9780822948896|Home Improvements and Urban Ideals in Twentieth-Century Bombay|Housing Modern India explores how ideals of house and home provided crucial sites for the negotiation of urban modernity during the late colonial and early independence periods. Focusing on Bombay, the cosmopolitan metropolis that helped define the promise and perils of urban life on the subcontinent, Abigail McGowan places concerns about domestic space at the heart of urban history. Efforts to remake Bombay prioritized reshaping homes to advance modern ideals of sanitation, community, consumption, and national identity. The city was constructed, in other words, not just through the efforts of planning regimes and…

|9780822967903|Translingualism and a Struggle for Rhetorical Sovereignty|The Language Movement in Bangladesh charts the Bangla Language Movement from a rhetorical perspective. Following Partition in 1947, major conflicts over land, religion, power, and language characterized the newly independent nations of India and Pakistan. The debate over recognizing Bangla as a state language in East Pakistan was particularly consequential. Lasting nearly a decade, it upended Pakistan’s political and social order and set the stage for Bangladeshi independence in 1971. Shakil Rabbi investigates the rhetorical facets of this debate and its takeaways for critical conversations around translingualist perspectives and rhetorical sovereignty. Rabbi analyzes the…

|9780822949022|Translingualism and a Struggle for Rhetorical Sovereignty|The Language Movement in Bangladesh charts the Bangla Language Movement from a rhetorical perspective. Following Partition in 1947, major conflicts over land, religion, power, and language characterized the newly independent nations of India and Pakistan. The debate over recognizing Bangla as a state language in East Pakistan was particularly consequential. Lasting nearly a decade, it upended Pakistan’s political and social order and set the stage for Bangladeshi independence in 1971. Shakil Rabbi investigates the rhetorical facets of this debate and its takeaways for critical conversations around translingualist perspectives and rhetorical sovereignty. Rabbi analyzes the…

|9780822967620|Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India|Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women’s rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying the borders of gender, nation, and race, her efforts spanned social movements and played a leading role in the creation of modern India and the development of the Global South. In The Art of Freedom, Nico Slate showcases new archival materials to document Kamaladevi’s campaign to become the first woman elected to provincial office; her confrontation with Gandhi that helped open the salt protests of 1930 to women; her leadership…