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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay seems like a book written to explain precisely this moment. It asks: how can we understand the relationship between “the city” and its laboring poor? This book is a must read for everyone interested in urban, housing, and economic justice, as well as for scholars of South Asia concerned with the subcontinent’s enduring inequalities."
* New Books in South Asia (NBN) *
"[A] searing reminder of the long history of urban dependence on migrant labor in India."
* Dissent *
"Chhabria makes key contributions to our understanding of urban histories that are relevant not just for historians but for many who are interested in more contemporary urban planning issues."
* South Asian History and Culture *
"It is a forceful, passionate, and well-researched challenge to our assumption that cities predate urbanism, and its relevance extends well beyond the “limits” of Bombay."
* Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *
"[I]nvaluable reading for scholars of South Asia and for anyone interested in “slums” in the Global South."
* Journal of Asian Studies *
