Taming the Oriental Bazaar:
* Explores how they became an essential feature of colonial settlements from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries;
* Discusses public health policies and legislations central to the concerns of market-hall sanitation;
* Studies the specific circumstances and histories of market halls in the towns and cities of Bangalore, Baroda, Bombay, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Karachi, Lahore, Madras, Poona, and a few others.
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