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Håkon Naasen Tandberg explores how, when, and why humans relate to the non-human world. Based on two ethnographic fieldworks among the Parsis in Mumbai, the research focuses on the role of temple fires in the lives of present-day Parsi Zoroastrians in India as an empirical case. Through four ethnographic portraits, the reader will get a deeper look into the lives of four Parsi individuals, and how their individual biographies, personalities, and interhuman relationships, along with religious identities and roles, shape-and to a certain extent are shaped by-their personal relationships with non-human entities. The book combines affordance theory, exchange theory, and social support to analyze such relationships, and offers suggestive evidence that relationships with non-human entities-in this case the Zoroastrian temple fires-can be experienced as no less real, important, or meaningful than those with other human beings.

Zoroastrianism --- Theology & Religion --- Holy --- Fire --- Parsi --- Mumbai (India) --- Ethnic relations. --- Asumumbay (India) --- Numbai (India) --- Bombay (India)

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Raj Chandavarkar was one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century. He died sadly young in 2006, leaving behind a very substantial collection of unpublished lectures, papers and articles. These have now been assembled and edited by Jennifer Davis, Gordon Johnson and David Washbrook, and their appearance will be widely welcomed by large numbers of scholars of Indian history, politics and society. The essays centre around three major themes: the city of Bombay, Indian politics and society, and Indian historiography. Each manifests Dr Chandavarkar's hallmark historical powers of imaginative empirical richness, analytic acuity and expository elegance, and the collection as a whole will make both a major contribution to the historiography of modern India, and a worthy memorial to a major scholar.

India --- Bombay (India) --- Numbai (India) --- Bombay --- Bombaim (India) --- Bom Bahia (India) --- Mumbaim (India) --- Mombaim (India) --- Boa Vida (India) --- Asumumbay (India) --- Bombeĭ (India) --- Mumbai (India) --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Riots and After in Mumbai provides a synoptic record of events in Mumbai, focusing essentially on the history of riots in the city. Using this framework, it attempts to understand the sociopolitical and cultural realities of present-day Mumbai through a collection of narratives of the people affected by the communal riots of 1992-93. The author uses a novel approach, combining historical records from the pre-Independence era (1893-1945) and personal interviews of both Muslims and Hindus living in the city. The book also looks into the political manipulations that ordinary people of both commun

Riots --- Civil disorders --- Assembly, Right of --- History --- Offenses against public safety --- Political violence --- Crowds --- Demonstrations --- Mobs --- Street fighting (Military science) --- Bombay (India) --- Numbai (India) --- Bombay --- Bombaim (India) --- Bom Bahia (India) --- Mumbaim (India) --- Mombaim (India) --- Boa Vida (India) --- Asumumbay (India) --- Bombeĭ (India) --- Mumbai (India) --- Ethnic relations.

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Rajnarayan Chandavarkar presents the first major study of the relationship between labour and capital in India's economic development in the early twentieth-century. He explores the emergence of capitalism in the region, the development of the cotton textile industry, its particular problems in the 1920s and 1930s and the mill owners' and the state's responses to them. The author also investigates how a labour force was formed in Bombay - its rural roots, urban networks, industrial organisation and the way in which it shaped capitalist strategies. In a subject dominated by the assumption of unities, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar convincingly demonstrates the fragmentation of class, on the side of both capital and labour. Their interaction sometimes exacerbated their internal differences. But, the author also asks on what terms, to what ends, and under what circumstances solidarities could be forged between workers.

Working class --- Cotton textile industry --- Capitalism --- Travailleurs --- Tissus de coton --- Capitalisme --- History --- Histoire --- Industrie --- Bombay (India) --- Bombay (Inde) --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- 812 Ideologie --- 815 Geschiedenis --- 828 Geografie --- 836 (Multi-)nationale ondernemingen --- 883.5 Zuid-Azië --- Conditions économiques --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Textile industry --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Employment --- Mumbai (India) --- Asumumbay (India) --- Numbai (India) --- India --- Bombay --- 20th century --- Industrial arts --- Working class - India - Bombay - History - 20th century. --- Cotton textile industry - India - Bombay - History - 20th century. --- Bombay (India) - Industries - History - 20th century. --- Capitalism - India - Bombay - History - 20th century. --- Arts and Humanities

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Riots, strikes, and protests broke out in the streets of Shanghai and Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995), with impressive frequency during the twentieth century. Many of the landmark protests and social movements had close connections with the neighborhoods, workplaces, and civic space of each city. By the late twentieth century, as the political geography of each city changed rapidly with the commodification of urban land, so too did the patterns of political contention. Using a comparative historical lens, Frazier chronicles the political biographies of these two metropolises and leading centers of manufacturing and finance. Debates over ideology, citizenship, and political representation took material form through clashes over housing, jobs, police violence, public space, among much else, in the lived experience of urban residents. Frazier puts contemporary debates over informal housing, eviction of inner-city residents, scarcities of manufacturing jobs, and questions of unequal citizenship in an illuminating historical context.

Urbanization --- Social movements --- Gentrification --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Urban renewal --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Sociology, Rural --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- History --- Shanghai (China) --- Mumbai (India) --- Asumumbay (India) --- Numbai (India) --- Bombay (India) --- Changhaï (China) --- Ṣămhayi (China) --- Shang-hai (China) --- Shang hai shi (China) --- Shanghai --- Shanghai Municipality (China) --- Shanghai Shi (China) --- Shanghai Shi ren min zheng fu (China) --- Shankhaĭ (China) --- Xangai (China) --- 上海 (China) --- Social conditions --- Chang-hai (China) --- Schanghai (China) --- 上海市(China) --- 上海市人民政府 (China) --- Шанхай (China) --- Śangqai (China)