From shekhar at crit.org.in Fri Feb 25 09:10:05 2011 From: shekhar at crit.org.in (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:40:05 +0530 Subject: [Urban South Asia] Galleries of Life: Chawls of Mumbai Message-ID: <4D67B83D.5010601@crit.org.in> Dear Friends: See the blurb below and attachment herewith on an important new book on the history of Mumbai, edited by Neera Adarkar. Information on how to order the book from Cambridge University Press India is given below, contact their New Delhi office. I hope you can forward this to friends and colleagues and place an order through your university library. Best, Shekhar -- THE CHAWLS OF MUMBAI: Galleries of Life Edited by Neera Adarkar 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 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. 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. 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. Editor: 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. CONTENTS and CONTRIBUTORS: Foreword by Charles Correa Preface and Acknowledgements by Neera Adarkar Overview by Sandeep Pendse, Neera Adarkar, Maura Finkelstein Part One: History in Context Neera Adarkar, Vanessa R. Caru, Colin Cunningham Part Two: Towards a Present Maura Finkelstein, Prasad Shetty, Vyjayanthi Rao Part Three: The Space of the Chawl Kaiwan Mehta, Amrit Gangar, Rupali Gupte, Rajesh Vora, Dev Benegal Part Four: Issues of Identity Sameera Khan, Sejal Shah, Smruti Koppikar Part Five: Personal Narratives Namdeo Dhasal (trans. Shanta Gokhale), Pradnya Daya Pawar (trans. Rajeev Kalekar), Arvind Adarkar, G.K. Ainpure (trans. Irawati Karnik) Publisher: imprintOne, New Delhi Pages : 176pp + 16pp colour plates + 8pp colour fold-out Year : 2011 Binding : Hardback ISBN : 9788188861125 Price: Indian Rupees 1,200/- Available from: Cambridge University Press India Private Limited http://www.cambridgeindia.org Cambridge House, 4381/4, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002 Tel.: 43543500 Fax: 23288534 Email: cupdel at cambridge.org C-22, Brigade M.M., K.R. Road, Jayanagar, Bengaluru-560070 Tel.: 65593388, 26764817, 26762764 Fax: 26761322 Email: cupbang at cambridge.org Cambridge House, Plot No. 80, Service Industries, Shirvane, Sector-1, Nerul, Navi Mumbai-400706 Tel.: 27709172, 27713810 Fax: 27709173 Email: cupmum at cambridge.org The Cambridge Centre, 10, Raja Subodh Mullick Square, 2nd Floor, Kolkata-700013 Tel.: 22259976, 22250046 Fax: 22250327 Email: cupkol at cambridge.org The Cambridge Centre, 21/1 (New No. 49), 1st Floor, Model School Road, Thousand Lights, Chennai-600006 Tel.: 42146807, 28291294 Fax: 28291295 Email: cupchen at cambridge.org House No. 3-5-874/6/4 (Near Apollo Hospital), St. No. 5, Hyderguda, Hyderabad-500029 Tel.: 23244458, 66101126 Fax: 23244459 Email: cuphyd at cambridge.org Agarwal Pride, A Wing, 1308, Kasba Peth, Near Surya Hospital, Pune-411011 Tel.: 24575767, 24575768 Fax: 24575768 Email: cuppune at cambridge.org -- Shekhar Krishnan 58/58A, Anand Bhavan 201, T.H. Kataria Marg (Lady Hardinge Road) Matunga (West), Mumbai 400016, India http://heptanesia.net http://web.mit.edu/shekhar -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: galleries_of_life_chawls_mumbai.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 642503 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/urban-media/attachments/20110225/4bb345d3/attachment.pdf From svasreally at gmail.com Fri Feb 25 12:13:30 2011 From: svasreally at gmail.com (svati shah) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:13:30 -0500 Subject: [Urban South Asia] Galleries of Life: Chawls of Mumbai In-Reply-To: <4D67B83D.5010601@crit.org.in> References: <4D67B83D.5010601@crit.org.in> Message-ID: looks amazing, thanks On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Shekhar Krishnan wrote: > Dear Friends: > > See the blurb below and attachment herewith on an important new book on the > history of Mumbai, edited by Neera Adarkar. > > Information on how to order the book from Cambridge University Press India > is given below, contact their New Delhi office. > > I hope you can forward this to friends and colleagues and place an order > through your university library. > > Best, > > > Shekhar > > -- > > > THE CHAWLS OF MUMBAI: Galleries of Life > Edited by Neera Adarkar > > 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 > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > Editor: > > 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. > > > CONTENTS and CONTRIBUTORS: > > Foreword > by Charles Correa > > Preface and Acknowledgements > by Neera Adarkar > > Overview > by Sandeep Pendse, Neera Adarkar, Maura Finkelstein > > Part One: History in Context > Neera Adarkar, Vanessa R. Caru, Colin Cunningham > > Part Two: Towards a Present > Maura Finkelstein, Prasad Shetty, Vyjayanthi Rao > > Part Three: The Space of the Chawl > Kaiwan Mehta, Amrit Gangar, Rupali Gupte, Rajesh Vora, Dev Benegal > > Part Four: Issues of Identity > Sameera Khan, Sejal Shah, Smruti Koppikar > > Part Five: Personal Narratives > Namdeo Dhasal (trans. Shanta Gokhale), Pradnya Daya Pawar (trans. Rajeev > Kalekar), Arvind Adarkar, G.K. Ainpure (trans. Irawati Karnik) > > > > Publisher: imprintOne, New Delhi > Pages : 176pp + 16pp colour plates + 8pp colour fold-out > Year : 2011 > Binding : Hardback > ISBN : 9788188861125 > Price: Indian Rupees 1,200/- > > > Available from: > Cambridge University Press India Private Limited > http://www.cambridgeindia.org > > > Cambridge House, 4381/4, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002 > Tel.: 43543500 Fax: 23288534 Email: cupdel at cambridge.org > > C-22, Brigade M.M., K.R. Road, Jayanagar, Bengaluru-560070 > Tel.: 65593388, 26764817, 26762764 Fax: 26761322 Email: > cupbang at cambridge.org > > Cambridge House, Plot No. 80, Service Industries, Shirvane, Sector-1, > Nerul, Navi Mumbai-400706 Tel.: 27709172, 27713810 Fax: 27709173 Email: > cupmum at cambridge.org > > The Cambridge Centre, 10, Raja Subodh Mullick Square, 2nd Floor, > Kolkata-700013 > Tel.: 22259976, 22250046 Fax: 22250327 Email: cupkol at cambridge.org > > The Cambridge Centre, 21/1 (New No. 49), 1st Floor, Model School Road, > Thousand Lights, Chennai-600006 > Tel.: 42146807, 28291294 Fax: 28291295 Email: cupchen at cambridge.org > > House No. 3-5-874/6/4 (Near Apollo Hospital), St. No. 5, Hyderguda, > Hyderabad-500029 > Tel.: 23244458, 66101126 Fax: 23244459 Email: cuphyd at cambridge.org > > Agarwal Pride, A Wing, 1308, Kasba Peth, Near Surya Hospital, Pune-411011 > Tel.: 24575767, 24575768 Fax: 24575768 Email: cuppune at cambridge.org > > > -- > > Shekhar Krishnan > 58/58A, Anand Bhavan > 201, T.H. Kataria Marg (Lady Hardinge Road) > Matunga (West), Mumbai 400016, India > > http://heptanesia.net > http://web.mit.edu/shekhar > > > --- > > MIT Urban South Asia Workshop > > http://bombayology.net > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/urban-media/attachments/20110225/0f6131c9/attachment.htm From Arafaat.A.Valiani at williams.edu Sat Feb 26 11:05:42 2011 From: Arafaat.A.Valiani at williams.edu (Arafaat A. Valiani) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:05:42 -0500 Subject: [Urban South Asia] Galleries of Life: Chawls of Mumbai In-Reply-To: References: <4D67B83D.5010601@crit.org.in> Message-ID: Will definitely take a look. Thanks, Arafaat www.arafaat.net On Feb 25, 2011, at 12:13 PM, svati shah wrote: looks amazing, thanks On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Shekhar Krishnan wrote: Dear Friends: See the blurb below and attachment herewith on an important new book on the history of Mumbai, edited by Neera Adarkar. Information on how to order the book from Cambridge University Press India is given below, contact their New Delhi office. I hope you can forward this to friends and colleagues and place an order through your university library. Best, Shekhar -- THE CHAWLS OF MUMBAI: Galleries of Life Edited by Neera Adarkar 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 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. 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. 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. Editor: 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. CONTENTS and CONTRIBUTORS: Foreword by Charles Correa Preface and Acknowledgements by Neera Adarkar Overview by Sandeep Pendse, Neera Adarkar, Maura Finkelstein Part One: History in Context Neera Adarkar, Vanessa R. Caru, Colin Cunningham Part Two: Towards a Present Maura Finkelstein, Prasad Shetty, Vyjayanthi Rao Part Three: The Space of the Chawl Kaiwan Mehta, Amrit Gangar, Rupali Gupte, Rajesh Vora, Dev Benegal Part Four: Issues of Identity Sameera Khan, Sejal Shah, Smruti Koppikar Part Five: Personal Narratives Namdeo Dhasal (trans. Shanta Gokhale), Pradnya Daya Pawar (trans. Rajeev Kalekar), Arvind Adarkar, G.K. Ainpure (trans. Irawati Karnik) Publisher: imprintOne, New Delhi Pages : 176pp + 16pp colour plates + 8pp colour fold-out Year : 2011 Binding : Hardback ISBN : 9788188861125 Price: Indian Rupees 1,200/- Available from: Cambridge University Press India Private Limited http://www.cambridgeindia.org Cambridge House, 4381/4, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002 Tel.: 43543500 Fax: 23288534 Email: cupdel at cambridge.org C-22, Brigade M.M., K.R. Road, Jayanagar, Bengaluru-560070 Tel.: 65593388, 26764817, 26762764 Fax: 26761322 Email: cupbang at cambridge.org Cambridge House, Plot No. 80, Service Industries, Shirvane, Sector-1, Nerul, Navi Mumbai-400706 Tel.: 27709172, 27713810 Fax: 27709173 Email: cupmum at cambridge.org The Cambridge Centre, 10, Raja Subodh Mullick Square, 2nd Floor, Kolkata-700013 Tel.: 22259976, 22250046 Fax: 22250327 Email: cupkol at cambridge.org The Cambridge Centre, 21/1 (New No. 49), 1st Floor, Model School Road, Thousand Lights, Chennai-600006 Tel.: 42146807, 28291294 Fax: 28291295 Email: cupchen at cambridge.org House No. 3-5-874/6/4 (Near Apollo Hospital), St. No. 5, Hyderguda, Hyderabad-500029 Tel.: 23244458, 66101126 Fax: 23244459 Email: cuphyd at cambridge.org Agarwal Pride, A Wing, 1308, Kasba Peth, Near Surya Hospital, Pune-411011 Tel.: 24575767, 24575768 Fax: 24575768 Email: cuppune at cambridge.org -- Shekhar Krishnan 58/58A, Anand Bhavan 201, T.H. Kataria Marg (Lady Hardinge Road) Matunga (West), Mumbai 400016, India http://heptanesia.net http://web.mit.edu/shekhar --- MIT Urban South Asia Workshop http://bombayology.net http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media --- MIT Urban South Asia Workshop http://bombayology.net http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media Arafaat A. Valiani, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology Department of Anthropology and Sociology Williams College Hollander Hall, 85 Mission Park Drive Williamstown, MA 01267, USA Email: avaliani at williams.edu Webpage: www.arafaat.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/urban-media/attachments/20110226/02f46b98/attachment.htm