[Reader-list] [Announcements] "Bombay and Mumbai" Book Release

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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 Reader in 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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