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Portals of Globalization
Repositioning Mumbai’s Ports and Zones, 1833–2014
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Megan Maruschke
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
While ports are traditionally considered national infrastructure sites that connect states to global markets, special economic zones and past free ports are portrayed as threats to national sovereignty. This book calls these narratives into question as it explores the history of planning Mumbai’s ports and free zones during periods of global and regional transition from the British Raj, to national independence, to economic liberalization. The book opens with a study of an unsuccessful plan hatched by merchants in 1833 to make Bombay a free port to deal with an emerging British India and the advent of free trade. The book ends with how India’s current special economic zones and emphasis on port expansion are part of broader goals to reposition India in transregional Asian trade, to connect Mumbai with northern India, and to enact local plans for a global city that threaten the very port that first connected Mumbai to the world. To understand the functionality of these port and zone projects beyond typical policy prescriptions, this book proposes portals of globalization as a spatial format that fosters processes of reterritorialization.
Author / Editor information
Megan Maruschke, Leipzig University
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Abbreviations
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1. Introduction
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2. Freeing the Port and Winning Land, 1830s–1860s
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3. Territorializing Bombay Port, 1860s–1880s
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4. An Export Processing Zone in the Making, 1940s–1980s
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5. Managing World Orders, 1960s–1980s
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6. Strategizing Global India and Transregional Mumbai, 1990s–2014
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7. Globalizing Mumbai, 1940s–2014
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8. Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Index
249
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eBook published on:
June 4, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783110615135
Hardcover published on:
June 4, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110612219
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Front matter:
12
Main content:
254
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
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