India: Mumbai (Bombay)
(see also India 1947-1984, India 1985-Present, India: Muslims)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Project Mumbai Makeover: Casualties of Development. Shivali Tukdeo, Selves & Others (7/8/05).
The Enigma of Return. Amitava Kumar, Nation [AlterNet] (10/5/04). Review essay on Suketu Mehta, Maximum City.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Humsafar Trust. Gay rights group in Mumbai.
Shiv Sena. Right-wing Hindu & Maharashtrian nationalist party.
In the Library: Articles
de Bellaigue, Christopher. "Bombay at war," in Silvers & Epstein (eds.) India: A Mosaic (NY, 2000), pp. 33-52.
Kumar, Amitava. "The enigma of return," Nation (10/18/04):31-34. Review essay on Mehta, Maximum City.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Desai, A. R. & S.D. Pillai. A Profile of an Indian Slum (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1972).
Hanson, Thomas Blom. Wages of Violence: Naming & Identity in Postcolonial Bombay (Princeton: Princeton U., 2001).
Mehta, Suketu. Maximum City: Bombay Lost & Found (NY: Knopf, 1004).
Naipaul, V.S. An Area of Darkness (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968).
Patel, Sujata & Jim Masselos (eds.) Bombay & Mumbai: The City in Transition (NY: Oxford, 2003).
Virani, Pinki. Once Was Bombay (New Dehi: Viking, 1999).
In the Library: Fiction
Chandra, Vikram. Love & Longing in Bombay (Boston: Litte, Brown, 1997).
Coovadia, Imraan. The Wedding (NY: Picador, 2001).
Desai, Anita. Baumgartner's Bombay (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
Deshpande, Shashi. The Binding Vine (NY: CUNY, 2001).
De Souza, Eunice. Dangerlok (London: Penguin, 2001).
Flemming, Leslie A. (ed.) Another Lonely Voice: The Life & Works of Saadat Hasan Manto (trans. Lahira Naqvi; Lahore: Vanguard, 1985).
Forbes, Leslie. Bombay Ice: A Novel (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998).
Ghatage, Shree. Awake When All the World is Asleep: Stories (Concord ONT: Anansi, 1997).
Irving, John. A Son of the Circus (NY: Random House, 1994).
Keating, H.R.F. Doing Wrong: An Inspector Ghote Novel (NY: O. Penzler, 1994).
__________. Asking Questions: An Inspector Ghote Mystery (NY: St. Martin's, 1997).
Lucas, Russell. Evenings at Mongini's & Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990).
__________. The Ice Factory (London: Heinemann, 1992).
__________. The Silver Castle: A Novel (London: J. Cape, 1996).
Manto, Saadat Hasan. Partition: Sketches & Stories (trans. Khalid Hasan; NY: Viking, 1991).
__________. Selected Stories (trans. Madan Gupta; New Delhi: Cosmos, 1997).
__________. Black Milk: A Collection of Short Stories (trans. Hamid Jalal; Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 1997).
__________. Manto's World: A Representative Collection of Saadat Hasan Manto's Fiction & Non-Fiction (trans. Khalid Hasan; Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2000).
__________. A Manto Panorama: A Representative Collection of Saadat Hasan Manto's Fiction & Non-Fiction (trans. Khalid Hasan: Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2000).
__________. For Freedom's Sake: Selected Stories & Sketches (Karachi: Oxford, 2001).
Meer, Amina. Bombay Talkie (NY: High Risk, 1994).
Mistry, Rohinton. Swimming Lessons & Other Stories from Firozshah Baag (NY: Knopf, 1989).
__________. A Fine Balance (NY: Knopf, 1996).
__________. Family Matters (NY: Knopf, 2002).
Padmanabhan, Manjula. Getting There (London: Picador, 2000).
Shanghvi, Siddharth Dhanvant. The Last Song of Dusk: A Novel (NY: Arcade, 2004).
Sharma, Shiv. Bombay Wallah (New Delhi: Minerva, 2000).
Sinha, Indra. The Death of Mr. Love (NY: Scribner, 2002).
Suri, Manil. The Death of Vishnu (NY: W.W. Norton, 2001).
Umrigar, Thrity. Bombay Time (NY: Picador, 2001).
__________. The Space Between Us (NY: Harper, 2006).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Bumbay" [200?], dir. Prahlad Kakkar, ?m. On public health problem represented by defecation of city's several millions of people with no access to sanitary facilities
"The Laughing Club of India" [1999], dir. Mira Nair, 28m. Working-class men in Mumbai find mental health through laughing yoga.
"Megacities" [1998], dir. Michael Glawogger, 90m.
"Monsoon Wedding" [2001], dir. Mira Nair, 114m. In video stores. Family, class & the elaborate celebration of an arranged wedding by the diasporic business elite.
"Salaam Bombay" [1989], dir. Mira Nair, 113m. In video stores.