Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash Book Review

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Good afternoon! Before you get started I just wanted to thank you and provide few instructions to follow. First thing first, this paper must get an A, so please don’t take an assignment if you haven’t read the book. Paper is Chicago style including 2 footnotes per page. ANY SOURCE EXCEPT THE BOOK ITSELF IS PROHIBITED. I’ll leave some pictures with more detailed explanation on how this book report should be written. Please read instructions carefully, otherwise my professor wont accept the paper

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was written. For more on Gyan Prakash, see his Princeton professional bio, and you do not need to cite it, but certainly do not quote any of it: https://history.princeton.edu/people/gyan- prakash Author's thesis: In a second paragraph, a reviewer should state the author's thesis, or main claim. In this section comes the reviewer's thesis addressing the question: What is the quality of the author's proposed solution to the problem? The reviewer offers a qualitative thesis about the quality or accuracy of the author's argument; so a reviewer's thesis emphasizes adjectives regarding quality. The reviewer should also discuss any relevant viewpoint or bias that may indicate why the author chose this thesis, or why the thesis is expressed a certain way, or other relevant information about focus-what is included or excluded. Author's arguments: In three or four paragraphs, a reviewer should summarize the author's claims, key terms, and distinctions and how they are discussed or supported or grounded in evidence; one paragraph per chapter or section is appropriate. In these paragraphs, a general summary of the book should be taking place, and for this book it is appropriate to proceed according to chapter since each is rather distinct in nature. Weaknesses: Next, in two or three paragraphs, a reviewer should discuss the book's weaknesses, such as problems, omissions, or contrary points based in one's own knowledge or from research. A reviewer should avoid overly subjective opinions, such as "I just didn't like it," or “It was too hard to read." Strengths: Next, a reviewer should focus on the book's strengths and on one's agreements; also, if applicable, discuss why some weaknesses do not detract from the work or its thesis. Tone: In a paragraph or two, a reviewer should discuss the book's tone or style, expressing how the book inspires (or discourages) readers to learn more about the topic, or otherwise affects readers. Suggest what should be the next step in response to the book's argument, challenge, or implications Conclusion: For the concluding paragraph, a reviewer should highlight the merits of the work, why it is significant, or not so important, and the value that it offers to specific or general readers. In addition to the standard components above, these three issues/questions should be broached at some point in the paper, and feel free to include them in the sections above or to reserve individual paragraphs prior to the conclusion for them: 1) Why does Prakash engage in an investigation of the city that is his topic? What issues spurs him to do this? 2) What were the most important forces in shaping Mumbai over time? 3) What themes from our course and other texts arise in Mumbai Fables? How so? The formatting and citation policy for this paper is the same as our others and is indicated in the syllabus. Quoting and citing policy: Quoting is the act of taking exact text from the source (in this case, the book), placing it in quotation marks, and then citing it. This is different from just citing, which is placing citations after material drawn from other sources, even if you did not quote them and use exact wording (paraphrased materials require citations). So, this paper should contain many citations of the book. However, it should not be overloaded with quotes. The more quotes you use, the less space you allow for your analysis. That is a waste of word count. Therefore, quoted material should not constitute more than 10% of the paper that's about 200 words. Be very selective about what you choose to quote. Of course, you can cite all over the place and are encouraged to do so to show you have read and analyzed the entire book. Although most pook reviews use parentnencai citation. I would like you to continue to use ase, quotation marks, and then citing it. This is different from just citing, which is placing citations after material drawn from other sources, even if you did not quote them and use exact wording (paraphrased materials require citations). So, this paper should contain many citations of the book. However, it should not be overloaded with quotes. The more quotes you use, the less space you allow for your analysis. That is a waste of word count. Therefore, quoted material should not constitute more than 10% of the paper -- that's about 200 words. Be very selective about what you choose to quote. Of course, you can cite all over the place and are encouraged to do so to show you have read and analyzed the entire book. Although most book reviews use parenthetical citation, I would like you to continue to use Chicago Turabian footnotes so you can master that skill. I do not expect a lot of footnotes; all you need to cite are your quotes. Even if you reference other works in including question 3 in your review, I do not require to cite them. You may refer to them in the text just by including the author and name of that text. There is no need to examine other texts. They need only to be mentioned as you connect this book to other themes in our course. All book reviews include the full information on the book at the top. Please examine the book reviews in the Journal of American History, and use the way in which that journal presents the book's information as your model. This paper, like our others, must be submitted in PDF format. Convert to PDF before submitting
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Mumbai Fables book review

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Mumbai Fables book review
A brief biography of the author
Gyan Prakash is an Indian historian specialized on topics like colonialism, postcolonialism, cultural history, historiography, and history of technology. He was educated in both
India and the United States. He focused his research on the influence of colonial genealogies on
urban modernity and the problems caused by both colonialism and post-colonialism on the
political situation in countries that, like India, had once been a colony of the British Empire.
Author’s thesis
Author of several books, he published the book Mumbai Fables in 2010, which reveals
his perception of how a cosmopolitan metropolis would present a soaring vision of modern urban
life. The book thus represents the underlying mythic life of the city, describing the perceptions
that the citizens, journalists, writers, planners, artists, filmmakers, political activists, and
journalists would have about living in the city. The author's thesis statement presented in the
book can thus be summarized as the interconnection that the past and present of the city of
Mumbai have on the modern urban life in the city, affecting how the people interact within each
other and the relation with the country and the rest of the world. Gyan Prakash supports this
thesis by analyzing the implications that the different historical events affecting the city have on
nowadays modern life. Thus, the book narrates the evolution of the city and the culture of its
citizens from the Portuguese conquest on the sixteenth century to the reinvention under British
dominance in the nineteenth century.

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Author’s arguments
The book starts by outlining the most recent events affecting the city of Bombay. The
book thus begins by analyzing the importance of the city not only in India but also in the world.
The book also introduces the reader to the Indian culture, explaining the funeral rituals used by
the Parsi and the importance of keeping these rituals free from the intrusion of foreigners 1 . By
starting the book by stating how the Parsi priest gets concerned about the fact that some foreigner
has just come across the ritual, Gyan Prakash introduces the reader to one of the most critical
aspects of the Indian, and most notably, the Parsi culture 2 ...