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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 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/- _____ PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) P.O. Box 5627 Dadar, Mumbai 400014, India E-Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone +91 (022) 2077779, +91 98200.45529, +91 98204.04010 Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://goacom.com/mailman/listinfo/goanet