[Urban-Media] 12.12.06: Divine Enterprise in Bangalore

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

We will meet for our next session this coming TUESDAY 12 DECEMBER in MIT
Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. when
Tulasi Srinivas from Georgetown University will present on "Divine
Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu
Temples in Bangalore" followed by discussion of the article and other
texts below. 

PRIMARY TEXT

Tulasi Srinivas, "Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in
Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore", South Asia: Journal of South
Asian Studies, Vol.XXIX, no.3, December 2006
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/srinivas_bangalore.pdf


SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

Janaki Nair, "Battles for Bangalore: Re-Territorialising the City",
paper published by SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Program for Research on
the History of Development), International Institute of Social History,
Amsterdam, 2002
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/nair_bangalore.pdf

James Heitzman, "Becoming Silicon Valley", Seminar 503 on Globalization,
New Delhi, July 2001
http://www.india-seminar.com/2001/503/503%20james%20heitzman.htm


Please note that this will be our last session this semester. As usual,
I will order meals for everyone. Please let me know if you are NOT
coming so I can adjust the food order accordingly. 


Best, 


S.K.

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Shekhar Krishnan
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