Making the Modern Slum
Making the Modern Slum In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British…
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Making the Modern Slum
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it.
By the early twentieth century, the slum emerged as a particularly useful category of stigmatization that would animate city-making projects in subsequent decades.Sheetal Chhabria locates the origins of Bombay's now infamous "slum problem" in the broader histories of colonialism and capitalism. Town planners, financiers, and property developers joined forces to secure the city as a space for commerce and encoded shelter types as legitimate or illegitimate. She not only
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