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Photographing Civil Disobedience: Bombay 1930–31 <\/em><\/strong>brings 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-colonial protests, processions, and propaganda—from the leading role played by the desh sevikas<\/em> (members of a nationalist women’s organization) to the violent crackdown of police lathis (bamboo or wooden sticks) on non-violent demonstrators.<\/p>\n

Focusing 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drawn 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).<\/p>\n

• Preface by Rahaab Allana
\n • Introduction: Words of Light in Disobedient Bombay by Avrati Bhatnagar and Sumathi Ramaswamy
\n • The Stages of a Disobedient Bombay by Preeti Chopra
\n • Visualizing the Urban Crowd: Political Spectatorship in the Age of Cinema by Debashree Mukherjee
\n • From Profits and Patriotism to Gandhian Austerity: Transformations in Bombay’s Swadeshi Landscape by Dinyar Patel
\n • Salt of the City by Sumathi Ramaswamy
\n • The Suburban Congresswoman by Murali Ranganathan
\n • Boycotting Women: The Street Politics of Consumer Activism in Bombay, 1930–1931 by Abigail McGowan
\n • Patrolling the Streets of Disobedience in Bombay by Avrati Bhatnagar
\n • “Noisy” Photographs: Listening to Images from the Civil Disobedience Movement in Bombay by Kama Maclean <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":69349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5525],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65417","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-photography","7":"author-edited-by-avrati-bhatnagar","8":"author-edited-by-sumathi-ramaswamy","9":"publisher-mapin-publishing-gp-pty-ltd","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPhotographing Civil Disobedience - 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