Portals of Globalization: Repositioning Mumbai’s Ports and Zones, 1833–2014

Megan Maruschke

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2019

Portals of Globalization

Repositioning Mumbai’s Ports and Zones, 1833–2014

Megan Maruschke

Volume 2 in the series Dialectics of the Global

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615135

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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.

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Megan Maruschke, Leipzig University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VI
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
1. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Freeing the Port and Winning Land, 1830s–1860s Open Access Download PDF	25
3. Territorializing Bombay Port, 1860s–1880s Open Access Download PDF	51
4. An Export Processing Zone in the Making, 1940s–1980s Open Access Download PDF	77
5. Managing World Orders, 1960s–1980s Open Access Download PDF	103
6. Strategizing Global India and Transregional Mumbai, 1990s–2014 Open Access Download PDF	137
7. Globalizing Mumbai, 1940s–2014 Open Access Download PDF	175
8. Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	215
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	223
Index Open Access Download PDF	249

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 254

eBook

Published: June 4, 2019
ISBN: 9783110615135

Hardcover

Published: June 4, 2019
ISBN: 9783110612219