| ID | 134266 |
| Title Proper | Imaging caste |
| Other Title Information | photography, the housing question and the making of sociology in Colonial Bombay, 1900–1939 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Shaikh, Juned |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper studies photographs of Bombay's built environment, especially Dalit and working-class houses, taken by two social scientists in the 1920s and 1930s. The photographs are situated at the intersection of four discursive temporalities: (a) social reforms initiated by Indian nationalists of the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries; (b) sanitary reforms and urban restructuring undertaken by city administrators and the colonial state, which reappeared vigorously after the plague epidemic of 1896; (c) colonial knowledge production, including census, labour and housing reports that informed academic social–scientific knowledge; and (d) Dalit and working-class social movements that aspired to transgressing the limits of reform in order to re-define self and the collective, and demand the redistribution of material resources. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol.37, No.3; Sep.2014: p.491-514 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2014-09 37, 3 |
| Standard Number | India |