[Reader-list] [Announcements] Bombay to Mumbai Book Release
PUKAR
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Wed Feb 19 15:41:42 IST 2003
Dear Friends:
Oxford University Press India cordially invites you to the release of
Bombay and Mumbai: The City in Transition
Edited by Sujata Patel and Jim Masselos
by
Mr Krishna Raj, Editor, Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai
who has kindly consented to chair the session
at
The Convention Hall
Y.B. Chavan Centre, 4th Floor
General Jagannath Bhosle Marg
Nariman Point, Mumbai 400021
on
TUESDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2003 at 5.30 p.m.
PROGRAMME
Welcome Address: Oxford University Press
Book Introduction: Sujata Patel, Professor, Department of Sociology,
Pune University
Book Release: Krishna Raj
Presentation of First Copy to Alice Thorner
BOOK DISCUSSION
Panelists:
Kalpana Sharma, Deputy Editor, The Hindu, Mumbai
Arjun Appadurai, Professor of International Studies, Yale University
Chairperson: Krishna Raj
VOTE OF THANKS: Oxford University Press
ABOUT THE BOOK
This volume, third in the series on Bombay, or Mumbai, brings
together essays that treat the renaming of the city as a point of
departure in visiting enduring themes in Bombay's life. As Bombay
explodes into the megapolis of Mumbai, the volume examines whether
transition is merely in the name or it has larger implications for
the city's growth—in terms of an enormous expansion in size,
diversity, population and function.
The essays collected here offer exhilarating and provocative insights
on what Bombay has become, as it steps into the new millennium. Has
living in Mumbai meant a better life for its inhabitants or are they
still condemned to the continued struggle for existence, and
consequently withdrawal? Among other themes, the volume inquires
whether the city has managed to retain its identity or is it has lost
it like any other large metropolis.
More specifically, the essays focus on diverse aspects of the city's
social, political and economic life including housing rent control,
the participation of Dalits and minorities in the city's life and
activity, health-care and life in the shanties, the twin evils of
crime and communalism, and the world of films.
This vivid but realistic volume on Mumbai will serve as an essential
and contemporary urban social history of Mumbai and will be useful to
sociologists, historians, urban theorists, political scientists, and
culturalists. In addition, activists, scholars, journalists and
academics concerned with everyday life, culture, history and urban
spaces of cities and particularly Mumbai will also find the volume of
interest.
Editors:
Sujata Patel is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at
the University of Pune.
Jim Masselos is Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Contributors:
P.K.Das, Lalit Deshpande, Sudha Deshpande, Mahesh Gavaskar, Amrit
Gangar, Neha Madhiwala, Suhas Palshikar, Sandeep Pendse, Jyoti
Punwani, Edward Rodrigues, Madhura Swaminathan, and Rajendra Vora.
ISBN 0195663179
Rs.645/-
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