Mumbai Fables

(Princeton University Press) Prakash sheds light on the metropolis of Mumbai in this new cultural history. The book covers a wide swath of time, stretching back to the city’s 16th century conquest by the Portuguese, tracing its development in the 19th century under the British, and examining how the city developed into the place it is today. Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University.