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Planning, the information order, and the Bombay census of 1901

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In the last decade of the nineteenth century, Bombay City was rocked by a series of events that undermined the systems of rule patched together over the course of the preceding century and triggered a crisis of the colonial 'information order' on which these were based. Saliently, these developments led to significant changes in the modes of colonial urban governance, in which a new planning agency played a key role. Integral to this shift was a reappraisal, on the part of the colonial state, of its mechanisms of information gathering and the growing recognition of the need for more knowledge about the swiftly expanding city and its rapidly diversifying population. The census of 1901 reflected, to a large extent, these new imperatives of colonial governance.

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  • Prashant Kidambi, 2013. "Planning, the information order, and the Bombay census of 1901," Planning Perspectives, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(1), pages 117-123, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rppexx:v:28:y:2013:i:1:p:117-123
    DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2012.737246
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