Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

✍ Scribed by Mehta, Suketu

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
• Year: 2005;2009
• Tongue: English
• Series: Vintage
• Edition: 1st Vintage Departures ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Power -- Personal geography -- Powertoni -- Mumbai -- Number two after Scotland Yard -- Black-collar workers -- Pleasure -- Vandapav Eaters' City -- Two lives: Honey/Manoj -- New Year's Eve -- Distilleries of Pleasure -- Passages -- Memory mines -- Sone ki Chidiya -- Good-bye world -- A self in the Crowd.;A portrait of Bombay, India, and its people chronicles the everyday life of the city and its inhabitants, from the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs to the diverse people who come from the villages in search of a better life.

✦ Table of Contents

Power --
Personal geography --
Powertoni --
Mumbai --
Number two after Scotland Yard --
Black-collar workers --
Pleasure --
Vandapav Eaters' City --
Two lives: Honey/Manoj --
New Year's Eve --
Distilleries of Pleasure --
Passages --
Memory mines --
Sone ki Chidiya --
Good-bye world --
A self in the Crowd.

✦ Subjects

JUVENILE NONFICTION--General;Social Science;Travel;Biography;Electronic books;Mehta, Suketu -- Travel -- India -- Mumbai;Mehta, Suketu -- Voyages -- Inde -- Bombay;Mehta, Suketu;Mumbai (India) -- Description and travel;India -- Description and travel;Bombay (Inde) -- Descriptions et voyages;JUVENILE NONFICTION -- General;India -- Mumbai;Bombay