[Urban-Media] Tomorrow: Labour Space & Politics

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

We will meet tomorrow THURSDAY 15 MARCH from 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. in MIT
E51-191 to discuss the work of Raj Chandavarkar, and his legacy for
urban historians of South Asia . We plan to read the following essays
for this week's discussion:

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, "From Neighbourhood to Nation: The Rise and
Fall of the Left in Bombay's Girangaon in the 20th Century",
introductory essay from Meena Menon and Neera Adarkar, One Hundred
Years, One Hundred Voices: The Mill Workers of Girangaon: An Oral
History (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2004).
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/bombay/chandavarkar_girangaon.pdf

---, "Workers' Politics and the Mill Districts in Bombay Between the
Wars" from Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and
the State in India, 1850-1950, pp.100-142
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/chandavarkar.pdf

---, "Police and Public Order in Bombay, 1880-1947" from Imperial Power
and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India,
1850-1950, pp.180-233

---, "Plague Panic and Epidemic Politics in India, 1896-1914" from
Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in
India, 1850-1950, pp.234-265

There will be no dinner served tomorrow, so please feel free to bring
your own food. My apologies for not distributing all the texts in
digital format, as I was unable to scan them this week due to my busy
schedule. Hope to see all of you tomorrow. 

Best, 


S.K.

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