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Rochelle Pinto: Manuel in The City: A Semi-Fictionalised Illustrated Book on the Arrival and Absorption of Goan Migrants to Mumbai
Rochelle Pinto: Manuel in The City: A Semi-Fictionalised Illustrated Book on the Arrival and Absorption of Goan Migrants to Mumbai
This is an attempt to produce a semi-fictionalised illustrated book on the arrival and absorption of predominantly working-class Goans into the growing city of Bombay in the 19th century. It draws on the variety of criminalised representations of these groups available in police reports, government correspondence between Bombay and Goa, and the disparaging writings of the Goan elite. In contrast to these, it also explores the wide range of print generated by the newly solvent migrants, which is more evocative of their encounter with the city, and the ways in which they inhabited and transformed its geography.
- 1. Bread and Rosaries
- 2. A broad outline
- 3. An office in Bombay, a café, a village in Goa
- 4. Cooks, butlers and waiters
- 5. Letters and Gazettes
- 6. The poet of a 1001 lines
- 7. Of newspapers
- 8. The Editor and his paper
- 9. Of dictionaries
- 10. A dinner party. The Alfred
- 11. Eliza
- 12. Dalgado
- 13. The goldsmiths’ wedding
- 14. Cabral
- 15. The club at night
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