Civic Sensibility: Bombay in the Twenties and Thirties

Clifford Manshardt, Pioneering on Social Frontiers in India, Bombay: Lalvani Publishing House, 1967.
Clifford Manshardt, ed., Bombay Today and Tomorrow: Eight Lectures at the Nagpada Neighbourhood House. Bombay: D.B. Taraporevala and Sons and Co., 1930
——, ed., How the Bombay Municipality Works: A Symposium at the Nagpada Neighbourhood House. Bombay: D.B. Taraporevala and Sons and Co., 1935
——, ed., Bombay Looks Ahead: Eight Lectures at the Nagpada Neighbourhood House. Bombay: D.B. Taraporevala and Sons and Co., 1934
——, ed., Some Social Services of the Government of Bombay. Bombay, D.B. Taraporevala and Sons and Co., 1945
A.R. Burnett-Hurst, Labour and Housing in Bombay: A Study in the Economic Conditions of the Wage-Earning Classes in Bombay, London: P.S. King & Son, Ltd., 1925.
Pestonji D. Mahaluxmivala, History of the Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Company (BEST), Limited, 1905-1935. Bombay: BEST, 1936.
S.M. Edwardes, The Rise of Bombay: A Retrospect. Bombay, 1902.
S.M. Surveyor, ed. Harvey-Nariman Libel Case: With a Brief History of the Development Department, Important Extracts from the Mears Committee Report Leading upto Prosecution, Court Proceedings including the Statement of Defence, Judgement in Full, with Press Comments, Illustrations, Etc. Bombay, 1927-1928
Jal F. Bulsara, ed., Bombay Citizenship Series. Bombay: National Information and Publications, 1949-1953

• Claude Batley, “Bombay’s Houses and Homes”
• A.L. Guilford, “Our Transport System”
• F.M. Surveyor, “Our Harbour and Docks”
• D.S. Savkar, “Banking and Finance in Bombay”
• Salim Ali, “Birds of Bombay”

Samuel Townshend Sheppard, Bombay. The Times of India Press, 1932.

Housing the Middle and Working Classes

Silver Jubilee Souvenir to Founder Members of the Saraswat Co-Operative Housing Society, Limited. Bombay, 1940.
R.S. Deshpande, Modern Ideal Homes for India. Poona: United Book Corporation, 1948 [1939]
R.S. Deshpande, Cheap and Healthy Homes for the Middle Classes of India. Poona: United Book Corporation, 1969 [1935]
R.S. Deshpande, An RCC Primer. Poona: United Book Corporation, 1969 [1932]
A.E. Mirams, Bhamburda: A Garden Suburb, Poona, 1922.
A.E. Mirams, Report on the Development of Karachi, Bombay Government Town Planning and Valuation Department, 1922.
A.E. Mirams, “Town Planning in Bombay under the Bombay Town Planning Act, 1915, British Town Planning Institute, Papers and Discussions, 1919-20, v.6, pp.43-57
A.E. Mirams, Report on the Proposed Development by the Bombay Port Trust of Antop Village, Poona: Scottish Mission Industries Company, 1919.
A.E. Mirams, “Memorandum on Industrial Employees” submitted to the Indian Industrial Commission, 1916-17, Bombay: Government Press, 1917.
J.P. Orr, Density of Population in Bombay: A Lecture Delivered before the Bombay Co-operative Housing Association. Bombay, British India Press. 1914.
J.P. Orr, The Bombay City Improvement Trust from 1898 to 1909, Bombay: Times of India Press, 1911.
Kamu Iyer, ed. Buildings that Shaped Bombay: Works of G.B. Mhatre. Mumbai: Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture (KRVIA) and Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI), 2000.

Civics and Science: The Bombay School of Economics and Sociology, 1922-1956

Patrick Geddes, “Bombay University and Bombay City: Scheme of Possible Collaboration Between University and City”, Bombay, 1922.
Patrick Geddes, “Essentials of Sociology in Relation to Economics”, Indian Journal of Economics vol.III, parts 1-3, Bombay, 1922.
Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, Patrick Geddes in India, London: Lund Humphries, 1947.
Jal F. Bulsara, Patterns of Social Life in Metropolitan Areas (with particular reference to Greater Bombay), New Delhi: Research Programmes Committee, Planning Commission and Bombay: Gujarat Research Society, 1970.
J.V. Ferreira and S.S. Jha, The Outlook Tower: Essays on Urbanization in Memory of Patrick Geddes, University Department of Sociology, Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1976.
G.S. Ghurye, “Social Work and Sociology” and “Salary and Other Conditions of Work of Clerks in Bombay City” in Anthropo-Sociological Papers, Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1963.
G.S. Ghurye, Cities and Civilization, Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1962.
C. Rajagopalan, The Greater Bombay: A Study in Suburban Ecology, Bombay: Popular Book Depot, 1962.

Wartime Economics

C.N. Vakil, J.J. Anjaria and D.T. Lakdawala, Price Control and Food Supply (with special reference to Bombay City), Bombay: N.M. Tripathi and Company, 1943.
C.N. Vakil, Socio-Economic Survey of Bombay City, 1954-57.
D.T. Lakdawala, V.N. Kothari, J.C. Sandesara, P.A. Nair, Work, Wages and Well-Being in an Indian Metropolis: Economic Survey of Bombay City, New Delhi: Research Programmes Committee, Planning Commission, 1954, published by University of Bombay, Series in Economics no.11, Bombay, 1963.
Benjamin Zachariah, Developing India: An Intellectual and Social History, 1930-1950. Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2005.
S.L. Rao, ed. The Partial Memoirs of V.K.R.V. Rao. Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2002.
H.T. Parekh, The Bombay Money Market. Bombay: Geoffrey Cumberledge/Oxford University Press, 1953.
K.N. Naik, The Co-Operative Movement in the Bombay State, C.N. Vakil, ed., Studies in Indian Economics, Bombay: Popular Book Depot, 1953.

Social Work in the City: The Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work/Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 1935-1952

Clifford Manshardt, Pioneering on Social Frontiers in India, Bombay: Lalvani Publishing House, 1967.
P. Ramachandran and A. Padmanabha, Social and Economic Rents and Subsidies for Low-Income Groups in Greater Bombay, Bombay: Lalvani Publishing House, 1967.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences Series

• Social Disorganisation in India, 1938
• Mobilising Social Service in Wartime, 1943
• Dharavi: An Economic and Social Survey of a Village in the Suburbs of Bombay, 1944
• Our Beggar Problem, 1945
• Students and Social Work, 1949
• Social Service Department in a Hospital, 1950
• Public Shopping Habits and Conveniences, 1952

Planning Space and Society in Greater Bombay

Mulk Raj Anand, et. al. Bombay. Bombay: Modern Architects Research Group (MARG) Publications and Tata Press, 1966
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), Draft Regional Plan for Bombay Metropolitan Region, 1996–2011. Mumbai: MMRDA and Government of Maharashtra, 1995.
Modak and Mayer
S.G. Barve
Joint Town Planning Committee
Tata History Project, Tata Electric Companies. Bombay: Tata Economic Consultancy Services, 1981.
Nigel Harris, Economic Development, Cities and Planning: The Case of Bombay. Bombay: Oxford University Press India, 1978
Meera Kosambi, Bombay in Transition: The Growth and Social Ecology of a Colonial City, 1880-1980. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1986.

Urbs Prima in Indis: Nineteenth Century Bombay

Mariam Dossal, Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City, 1845-1875. Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 1991
Teresa Albuquerque,
Gillian Tindall, City of Gold
Lakshmi Subramanian, Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West Coast, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Labour and Industrial Histories

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Class in Bombay, 1900–1940. Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
——, Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Neera Adarkar and Meena Menon, One Hundred Years, One Hundred Voices: The Millworkers of Mumbai: A Vanishing History. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2004
Darryl D’Monte, Ripping the Fabric: The Decline of Mumbai and its Mills. New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2002
Rajni Bakshi, The Long Haul: An Account of the Textile Strike. Bombay: BUILD Documentation Centre, 1984.
Hubert van Wersch, The Bombay Textile Strike, 1982-1983. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Sudha Deshpande and Lalit Deshpande, Problems of Urbanisation and Growth of Large Cities in a Developing Country: A Case Study of Bombay. Geneva: International Labour Organisation (ILO), World Employment Programme Research Working Paper no.177, 1991.
Vasant Gupte, Labour Movement in Bombay: Origin and Growth upto Independence. Bombay: Institute for Workers Education, 1981.
Jairus Banaji and Rohini Hensman (Union Research Group, Bombay), Beyond Multinationalism: Management Policy and Bargaining Relationships in International Companies. Delhi: Sage Publications, 1990.
A.D.D. Gordon, Businessmen and Politics: Rising Nationalism and a Modernising Economy in Bombay, 1918-1933. New Delhi : Manohar, 1978
K. Sita, V.S. Phadke, Swapna Banerjee-Guha, The Declining City-Core of an Indian Metropolis: A Case Study of Bombay. New Delhi : Concept, 1988.
K. Sita and R.N. Sharma, eds., Issues in Urban Development: A Case of Navi Mumbai. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2001.

The Urban Turn: Mumbai in the Nineties

Namas Bhojani and Arun Katiyar, Bombay: A Contemporary Account of Mumbai, New Delhi : Harper Collins Publishers India, 1996.
Thomas Blom Hansen, Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001
Rahul Mehrotra and Sharda Dwivedi, Bombay: The Cities Within. Bombay: India Book House Limited, 1995.
Sujata Patel and Alice Thorner, eds., Bombay: Metaphor for Modern India. Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 1995
Sujata Patel and Alice Thorner, eds., Bombay: Mosaic of Modern Culture. Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 1995
Sujata Patel and Jim Masselos, eds., Bombay and Mumbai: The City in Transition. Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2003
Gyan Prakash, “The Urban Turn” in SARAI Reader 2: Cities of Everyday Life, Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies/Waag Society for Old and New Media, 2002
Pauline Rohtagi, Pheroza Godrej and Rahul Mehrotra, eds., Bombay to Mumbai: Changing Perspectives. Mumbai: MARG Publications, 1997.
Teresa Albuquerque, Bombay, A History. New Delhi: Rashna in association with Promilla, 1992.