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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Housing Modern India: Home Improvements and Urban Ideals in Twentieth-Century Bombay

Housing Modern India: Home Improvements and Urban Ideals in Twentieth-Century Bombay

McGowan, Abigail

Hardcover

General ArchitectureIndian & South Asian HistoryInterior Design

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 17, 2026

ISBN10: 0822948893
ISBN13: 9780822948896
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 304
Language: English
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 their built forms, but also through the personal tastes and material choices driving the design of domestic interiors. Housing Modern India builds urban history from the inside outward, showing how housing reformers, community leaders, state planners, and regular consumers helped create modern Bombay by designing, building, and decorating new types of Indian homes.

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