[Reader-list] [Announcements] The Urban Turn
PUKAR @ The Paperie
pukar at bol.net.in
Fri Dec 13 15:29:53 IST 2002
Dear Friends:
PUKAR cordially invites its Associates, Advisors, and friends to a
panel discussion on "The Urban Turn". Three distinguished
sociologists and historians will speak about Bombay/Mumbai, and the
increasing importance of urban studies to understandings of the
history and culture of modernity. The programme includes short talks
by:
JAIRUS BANAJI worked with the unions in Bombay through the eighties,
when he published Beyond Multinationalism: Management Policy and
Bargaining Relationships in International Companies. His most recent
book is Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and
Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford, 2002).
SUJATA PATEL is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at
University of Pune. She is the co-editor, with Alice Thorner, of
Bombay: Metaphor for Modern Culture and Bombay: Mosaic of Modern
India (both Oxford India, 1995), of which the next volume, co-edited
with Jim Masselos, is currently in press. She is an Advisor to PUKAR.
GYAN PRAKASH is Professor of History at Princeton University, U.S.A.
and a member of the Subaltern Studies Editorial Collective. He is the
author of Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labour Servitude in
Colonial India (Cambridge, 1990), Another Reason: Science and the
Imagination of Modern India (Princeton, 1999), as well as several
articles on colonialism and historiography, and has edited several
volumes on colonial history.
(RAJ CHANDAVARKAR, Professor of History, Cambridge University, U.K.
will also join the discussion).
Date:
SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2002
6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.
At:
The BOMBAY PAPERIE
Mezzanine Floor, Soonawalla Building
59, Bombay Samachar Marg
Opposite the Stock Exchange
Fort, Bombay 400001
R.S.V.P.
Phone Shekhar Krishnan or Rahul Srivastava at 2077779
E-Mail <pukarsecretariat at vsnl.net>
About PUKAR @ The Paperie:
This discussion, and future gatherings focused on discussing issues
of common interest and concern to the PUKAR Associates, is part of a
monthly programme organised by PUKAR for invited friends and guests
at The Bombay Paperie, Fort. These gatherings are usually held on the
third or fourth Saturday of every month at 6.00 p.m. PUKAR thanks the
Manager of The Bombay Paperie, Neeta Premchand, for hosting PUKAR @
The Bombay Paperie, as well as Navaz . We look forward to your
attendance and participation, and suggesting names of people and
organisations to add to our mailing list. For more information, call
PUKAR at 22077779.
Regards,
Rahul Srivastava, Shekhar Krishnan and Vyjayanthi Rao
Coordinators
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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
P.O. Box 5627
Dadar, Mumbai 400014, India
E-Mail <pukarsecretariat at vsnl.net>
Phone +91 (022) 2077779, +91 98200.45529, +91 98204.04010
Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in
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