{"product_id":"photographing-civil-disobedience-bombay-1930-1931-paperback","title":"Photographing Civil Disobedience: Bombay 1930-1931 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAvrati Bhatnagar\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSumathi Ramaswamy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawn from a rare and historical album, this volume takes readers on a visual journey of the unfolding of the Civil Disobedience Movement in and around Bombay (today's Mumbai).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhotographing Civil Disobedience: Bombay 1930-31 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ebrings together an interdisciplinary conversation around a rare collection of documentary photographs compiled in a historical album held in the Alkazi Collection of Photography, New Delhi. The album features 245 black-and-white images that capture the extraordinary history of the Civil Disobedience Movement in Bombay (now Mumbai), when the city's cosmopolitan streets came alive with anti-colonia\u003ci\u003el\u003c\/i\u003e protests, processions, and propaganda--from the leading role played by the \u003ci\u003edesh sevikas\u003c\/i\u003e (members of a nationalist women's organization) to the violent crackdown of police lathis (bamboo or wooden sticks) on non-violent demonstrators. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the sea of ordinary people participating in public events, the essays in the volume engage with this remarkable visual archive that captures on camera the streets of Bombay turning into sites of anti-colonial and nationalist assertion. This book will be of interest to scholars of gender and women's studies, urban studies, screen and visual studies, consumer history, as well as the material history of colonial India.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAvrati Bhatnagar\u003c\/b\u003e is historian of modern India and the British Empire with a Ph.D. in History from Duke University. \u003cb\u003eSumathi Ramaswamy\u003c\/b\u003e is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History at Duke University. \u003cb\u003ePreeti Chopra\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern Architecture, Urban History and Visual Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \u003cb\u003eDebashree Mukherjee\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) and co-director of the Center for Comparative Media at Columbia University. \u003cb\u003eDinyar Patel\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at the S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) in Mumbai. \u003cb\u003eMurali Ranganathan\u003c\/b\u003e is an unaffiliated scholar who researches 19th-century South Asia, with a special focus on Mumbai and western India. \u003cb\u003eAbigail McGowan\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at the University of Vermont, USA, where she teaches about South Asia with a particular focus on visual and material culture. \u003cb\u003eKama Maclean\u003c\/b\u003e holds the Chair of History in the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and is Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Humanities and Languages at UNSW, Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 10.56 x 8.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 31, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290477900025,"sku":"9789394501959","price":43.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/HR8tVnZUdw9789394501959.webp?v=1776283836","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/photographing-civil-disobedience-bombay-1930-1931-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}