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****** Forwarded Message Follows ******* >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: FN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:22:15 +0530 (IST) >>This might be of interest to Bombay/Mumbai Goans on the list... FN > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >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/mai _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goanet.org/mailman/listinfo/goanet