The village might well have been Gandhi’s ideal, but it was in the urban centers of colonial India that Gandhian-style activism unfolded in its most spectacular form, especially during the Civil Disobedience Movement. The photographs of the Nursey album follow the thousands of the city’s residents—men, women, and children—who collectively sustained the campaign against British rule between April 1930 and August 1931, as they challenged the might of a global empire. They enacted their acts of disobedience in and around the familiar landmarks of British Bombay which are luminously captured by the black-and-white photographs of the album: the Victoria Terminus (“V.T.”), Chowpatty Beach, European department stores such as Whiteaway Laidlaw and Army and Navy Stores, even the iconic BEST buses and tramways.