Mariam DossalMariam Dossal is former Professor of the Department of History, University of Mumbai. She is a historian of modern India who focuses on urban and maritime history and has authored and edited several books. Some of her major publications include Imperal Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City, c. 1845-1875 (1991); Theatre of Conflict, City of Hope: Mumbai 1660 to Present Times (2010) and the edited volume State Intervention and Popular Response: Western India in the Nineteenth Century (1998). She has published extensively in national and international journals and is the recipient of several awards, including the Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship, (1983-4); the Indo-US Visitorship (1993); the Rockefeller Foundation Award (1995); Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2002-3). Her current research explores scientific and technological advances in nineteenth and twentieth century western India. Read More Read Less