Jim Masselos

Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson, 2010.

The Great Empires of Asia

A two part illustrated narrative on Bombay, India; authored separately by Jim Masselos with photo research and editing by Pramod Kapoor and Naresh Fernandes with photo research and editing by Chirodeep Chaudhuri.

Bombay then, Mumbai now

This Volume Projects A Collective Biography Of The Indian Republic And Constitutes An Important Portrait Of The Changing Life Of A Nation, Its People And Their Times. Contributors Include Ann-Maree Ashburn, M. Aslam, Richard Barz, D.P. Chaudhri, Marika Vicziany Among Many Others. Dust Jacket Slightly Frayed Around The Corners.

India, Creating a Modern Nation

Sujata Patel

This Vivid But Realistic Volume On Mumbai Will Serve As An Essential And Contemporary Urban Social History Of Mumbai And Will Be Useful To Sociologists, Historians, Urban Theorists, Political Scientists And Culturalists.

The City in Transition

Bombay and Mumbai

Papers presented at a Congress Centenary Conference held at Sydney University, 1985.

The Indian National Congress, 1885-1985

Struggling and Ruling

Beato’s Delhi offers a pictorial history of Delhi, brought vividly to life through the visual virtuosity of Felice A. Beato, the famous nineteenth-century photographer who came to India to record the last embers of the 1857 ‘Mutiny’, and Jim Masselos who, in 1997, retraced Beato’s footsteps and photographed the same sites as far as possible. By the time Beato reached Delhi in January 1858, the British had already subdued the city, so he could not record the military campaign itself. However, his lens was perhaps the first to capture the battleground and other places of note in that campaign, providing for posterity some unique views of Old Delhi before substantial parts of it were demolished in the aftermath of 1857, or radically redeveloped as the years progressed. Beato’s luminous views are juxtaposed with Masselos’s present-day photographs of the bustling metropolis, shedding light on how the face of Delhi has transformed in the intervening 154 years. Supplemented with an illuminating text by Masselos and Narayani Gupta, Beato’s Delhi is a moving testament to the resilience of this ever-evolving city.

1857 and Beyond

Beato's Delhi

Robert Louis Stevenson

When the first edition of this book appeared, India's independence from British rule was still a relatively recent event. This fifth edition coincides with the return of the Congress Party to political power as the leading party in a new government in India. The book gives a clear and comprehensive account of the complex factors which led to the rise and eventual success of Indian nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries until recent times. It presents the story of what was involved in the freedom struggle -- the nationalist demands brought together by clearly formulated, underlying notions of cultural and national identity which convinced the British politicians that their withdrawal was not only a necessity but an imperative that could not be, nor should be, long denied. The analysis begins with the groups and individuals responsible for Western-style political organisations, examining their social background and the part played by the Indian National Congress in the struggle for independence. The narration traces the developments from Nehru and Indira Gandhi through to Rajiv Gandhi as prime ministers of India, the coming of VP Singh, the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992, and its aftermath, the coming of the National Democratic Alliance to power with BJP at the head in 1999 up to its defeat in the 2004 elections, and the comeback of the Congress.

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