Last weekend, we went to Mumbai for a field trip. The planned activity was an architectural tour. Mumbai is unusual among Indian cities for having assorting contiguous styles of architecture, rather than fairly uniform neighborhoods. One of the historians that we read recently, Thomas Metcalf, wrote about how the various architectural decisions reflected different British administrative policies in that city. After doing this reading, I was excited for the tour. In actuality, however, it was highly disappointing. Our guide spoke in such a low voice that it was difficult to hear even when standing directly beside her, gave us little information, and rushed us past the majority of the buildings before we had gotten more than a glimpse of them. Still, the trip allowed us enough free time that I got to do some wandering and explore more public parks. The pictures above were from a public park that was two blocks from the hotel. The statue is Rajiv Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and seventh Prime Minister of India.
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