<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Will definitely take a look.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Arafaat</div><div><a href="http://www.arafaat.net">www.arafaat.net</a> </div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Feb 25, 2011, at 12:13 PM, svati shah wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">looks amazing, thanks<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Shekhar Krishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shekhar@crit.org.in">shekhar@crit.org.in</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Friends:<br>
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See the blurb below and attachment herewith on an important new book on the history of Mumbai, edited by Neera Adarkar.<br>
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Information on how to order the book from Cambridge University Press India is given below, contact their New Delhi office.<br>
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I hope you can forward this to friends and colleagues and place an order through your university library.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Shekhar<br>
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THE CHAWLS OF MUMBAI: Galleries of Life<br>
Edited by Neera Adarkar<br>
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In the 15 chapters of this book, a diverse group of writers explores the unique structure of the chawl, all the while considering a complicated and interwoven set of themes and questions. While many of<br>
these questions remain unanswered, we struggle with them because, at their heart, they are the questions of Mumbai itself. With vacant land being non-existent, the demolition of the chawls is going to redefine the skyline of south and central Mumbai.<br>
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The chawls make up around 16,000 structures, located in the heart of Mumbai. Yet, for many of us these structures are unfamiliar, as this city of extremes is often understood through only its slums and its mansions. In this book we have tried to trace the past, present and future of the city, as told through and within the chawl. These conversations are meandering and circular, at times overlapping and repetitive. Like a walk through the chawl neighbourhoods themselves, each chapter leaves the impression, ‘Haven’t I walked down this lane before?’ This is both intentional and unavoidable.<br>
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How is the chawl defined? What makes it unique among the various building typologies located throughout the city? How have cultural formations emerged through the constraints imposed by such limited living space? These are not easy questions to answer, but this multi-genre book, with the help of an assemblage of visuals -- from floor plans, photographs and drawings to screenplay and cinematic representations -- attempts to consider the ways in which the chawl emerges as a distinct symbol of the city of Mumbai, holding not only the history of the city’s transformation but also its unique social identity.<br>
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Editor:<br>
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NEERA ADARKAR is an architect, urban researcher and activist, and a visiting faculty member of architecture and planning, Academy of Architecture, Mumbai. She is the co-author of One Hundred Years One Hundred Voices: The Millworkers of Girangaon, An Oral History which was shortlisted for the English Non-Fiction Crossword Hutch Book Award, 2005. She is also a founder trustee, Majlis Legal and Cultural Centre.<br>
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CONTENTS and CONTRIBUTORS:<br>
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Foreword<br>
by Charles Correa<br>
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Preface and Acknowledgements<br>
by Neera Adarkar<br>
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Overview<br>
by Sandeep Pendse, Neera Adarkar, Maura Finkelstein<br>
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Part One: History in Context<br>
Neera Adarkar, Vanessa R. Caru, Colin Cunningham<br>
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Part Two: Towards a Present<br>
Maura Finkelstein, Prasad Shetty, Vyjayanthi Rao<br>
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Part Three: The Space of the Chawl<br>
Kaiwan Mehta, Amrit Gangar, Rupali Gupte, Rajesh Vora, Dev Benegal<br>
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Part Four: Issues of Identity<br>
Sameera Khan, Sejal Shah, Smruti Koppikar<br>
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Part Five: Personal Narratives<br>
Namdeo Dhasal (trans. Shanta Gokhale), Pradnya Daya Pawar (trans. Rajeev Kalekar), Arvind Adarkar, G.K. Ainpure (trans. Irawati Karnik)<br>
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Publisher: imprintOne, New Delhi<br>
Pages : 176pp + 16pp colour plates + 8pp colour fold-out<br>
Year : 2011<br>
Binding : Hardback<br>
ISBN : 9788188861125<br>
Price: Indian Rupees 1,200/-<br>
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Available from:<br>
Cambridge University Press India Private Limited <a href="http://www.cambridgeindia.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cambridgeindia.org</a><br>
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Cambridge House, 4381/4, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002<br>
Tel.: 43543500 Fax: 23288534 Email: <a href="mailto:cupdel@cambridge.org" target="_blank">cupdel@cambridge.org</a><br>
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The Cambridge Centre, 21/1 (New No. 49), 1st Floor, Model School Road, Thousand Lights, Chennai-600006<br>
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Shekhar Krishnan<br>
58/58A, Anand Bhavan<br>
201, T.H. Kataria Marg (Lady Hardinge Road)<br>
Matunga (West), Mumbai 400016, India<br>
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MIT Urban South Asia Workshop<br>
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<a href="http://bombayology.net/" target="_blank">http://bombayology.net</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media" target="_blank">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media</a><br></blockquote></div><br>
---<br><br>MIT Urban South Asia Workshop<br><br><a href="http://bombayology.net">http://bombayology.net</a><br>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media</div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div>Arafaat A. Valiani, Ph.D.</div><div>Assistant Professor of Sociology</div><div>Department of Anthropology and Sociology</div><div>Williams College</div><div>Hollander Hall, 85 Mission Park Drive</div><div>Williamstown, MA 01267, USA</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:avaliani@williams.edu">avaliani@williams.edu</a></div><div>Webpage: <a href="http://www.arafaat.net">www.arafaat.net</a> </div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span></span>
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