Bombay

Samuel T Sheppard, Bombay, Bombay: The Times of India Press, 1932

xii + [2] + 272 pp., illustrated with numerous photographic plates, including full-page views such as A Bazaar Scene in Bombay; decorative border-printed title-page; publisher’s original brown pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered to upper cover and spine, blind-stamped ruling; edges untrimmed.
11 x 8 in (28 x 20 cm)

STREETS, BAZAARS AND MONUMENTS: A TIMES OF INDIA PORTRAIT OF BOMBAY

Samuel T. Sheppard, a prolific historian of Bombay and long-time journalist with The Times of India, authored several seminal works on the city, including Bombay Place-Names and Street-Names (1917), The Byculla Club: 1833–1916, and The Bombay Volunteer Rifles. In Bombay (1932), he sought to encapsulate the city’s architecture, civic life, communities, and evolving urban fabric in the early twentieth century.

Published by The Times of India Press, the book stands as both a historical record and a photographic survey of Bombay at the cusp of modernity. The plates vividly illustrate colonial boulevards, markets, and architectural landmarks, offering a visual documentation of the city during an era of rapid growth and cultural hybridity. The plate “A Bazaar Scene in Bombay” exemplifies the vernacular vitality of street life, framed against Mughal-influenced architecture and mercantile bustle.

Institutionally, the work is significant as part of the larger body of urban historiography on Bombay, complementing the accounts of writers such as Sir William Hunter, J. D. B. Gribble, and George Birdwood, while providing a pictorial balance between civic narrative and lived urban experience. Copies are represented in holdings of the British Library and the Asiatic Society of Mumbai.

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