Fictional and Cinematic Representations of the Journey of Bombay to Mumbai

Bharucha, Nilufer E.

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_40

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“…Sujata Patel and Thorner point out that in the decline of cosmopolitan order as well, Mumbai is a 'metaphor for India', 37 its rechristening from Bombay to Mumbai in the 1990s as formalising a transformation that unfolded slowly over a period of time. 38 Similar arguments about the decline of cosmopolitanism in Mumbai 39 reveal the attention and burden Mumbai has had to bear as a city representative of India. Indian metropolises, in general, have lost their cosmopolitan credentials: while Suryakant Waghmore writes about the rise of 'Hindu cosmopolitanism' 40 in Mumbai that closes its doors to alterity, Janaki Nair points out, most Indian cities have become battlegrounds where 'sons of the soil' fight those perceived as outsiders (with the example of Bengaluru as a case in point).…”

Section: Mumbai: the Limits Of Metro-cosmopolitanismmentioning

confidence: 93%

Kochi: provincialising postcolonial metro-cosmopolitan spatialities

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Wadhwa

2023

cultural geographies

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There is much to learn about how some locales come to be deemed as more cosmopolitan than others. Mumbai is hailed as a cosmopolitan city and even a model for India. With an increasing sense of disappointment about the decline of cosmopolitanism in such metropolitan cities, there is a need to look at what other locales can offer as alternative models of cosmopolitanism. This article addresses Kochi as a locale that is nuanced with precolonial practices of cosmopolitanism. This move towards provincialising cosmopolitanism – in the sense of moving away from metropolitan locales to highlight deeper, more historical and local ways of being cosmopolitan – is informed by the growing emphasis on the need to explore subaltern or vernacular cosmopolitanism.

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Section: Mumbai: the Limits Of Metro-cosmopolitanismmentioning

confidence: 93%

Kochi: provincialising postcolonial metro-cosmopolitan spatialities

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Wadhwa

2023

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“…Moreover, by creating a street which does not exist in the record, the author is trying to create a place outside of institutional history, thus defying nativist aspirations. In another context, Nilufer E. Bharucha has argued that the name change to Mumbai and the rise of the Shiv Sena led to the city’s degeneration and changed its character (2016: 624). Stuti Khanna too records Rushdie’s impression of Bombay being more inclusive than Mumbai, the latter name being an expression of regional chauvinism (Khanna, 2013: 7).…”

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Between Madras and Chennai: Narratives of belonging in a postcolonial city

Rajamony

Tripathy

2021

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Fictional narratives on Chennai, after its official conversion from Madras in 1996, offer an intriguing register for exploring ways of belonging. Using a postcolonial framework, the paper closely scrutinizes T. S. Tirumurti’s Clive Avenue and Chennaivaasi (and some other authors invested in Chennai’s contemporary culture) and subjects them to critique as sites of meaning making. An effort is made to explore how these narratives respond to the new reality of Chennai, to what extent they see the city producing a standardized experience, and how the fictional characters corroborate or contest institutional change. In the process, the texts are brought to converse with the postcolonial desire for cultural autonomy, its mediation by a nativist agenda, as well as the ambivalence and contradictions inherent in such a desire. The texts betray the inadequacies of the new name as a stable container of cultural meanings and propose an idea of the city that is internally incoherent and multi-experiential.

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Fictional and Cinematic Representations of the Journey of Bombay to Mumbai

Cited by 2 publications

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Kochi: provincialising postcolonial metro-cosmopolitan spatialities

Kochi: provincialising postcolonial metro-cosmopolitan spatialities

Between Madras and Chennai: Narratives of belonging in a postcolonial city

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