Maximum City
Bombay Lost and Found
New York : Vintage Books, 2005.
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage Departures edition.
Description: xii, 542 pages ; 20 cm
A portrait of Bombay, India, and its people chronicles the everyday life of the city and its inhabitants, from the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs to the diverse people who come from the villages in search of a better life.
Contents:
Power -- Personal geography -- Powertoni -- Mumbai -- Number two after Scotland Yard -- Black-collar workers -- Pleasure -- Vadapav Eaters' City -- A city in heat -- Distilleries of Pleasure -- Passages -- Memory mines -- Sone ki Chidiya -- Good-bye world -- A self in the Crowd.
Subjects:
Mehta, Suketu -- Travel -- India -- Mumbai.
Mumbai (India) -- Description and travel.
India -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature.
Mehta, Suketu -- Travel -- India -- Mumbai.
Mumbai (India) -- Description and travel.
India -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
0375703403
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRAVEL Writing Meh | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |