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

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, cons...