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City One: the South Asian conference on the urban experience was held between 9-11th January 2003 at the CSDS- Sarai premises on 20 Rajpur Road. With six plenary sessions, eighteen parallel sessions, the conference was an intense and intellectually charged event. The participants ranged from well known social scientists, activists and practitioners, as well as an emerging generation of researchers…

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Day 02: Creativity and Alternate Visions Morning Plenary: The Media City and the Contemporary 01. Chair: Ravi Sundaram 02. Talk: Ravi Vasudevan 03. Talk: Jeebesh Bagchi 04. Talk: Shuddhabrata Sengupta 05. Talk: Monica Narula 06. The Media City and the Contemporary: Discussion Morning Sessions Panel 01: Cinema and the City 01. Aadamkhor Haseena (The Man Eating Beauty) and the…

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Day 03: Modernity Morning Plenary: Is the Indian City finally becoming Bourgeois? 01. Is the Indian City finally becoming Bourgeois? Partha Chatterjee, CSSS 02. Is the Indian City finally becoming Bourgeois? Discussion Morning Sessions Panel 01: An Urban Modernity? 01. The Modern City in Ruins: Gyan Prakash, Princeton University 02. Number in the Anatomy of the Crowd: Radhika…

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Day 01 Culture Politics and the City Morning Plenary: The Darkness of the City 01. Opening Comments: Ravi Sundaram, Sarai/CSDS 02. Chair: Ravi Vasudevan, Sarai/CSDS 03. The Darkness of the City: Ashis Nandy, CSDS 04. The Darkness of the City: Discussion Morning Sessions Panel 01: Space and the Politics of Cultural Knowledge in Calcutta 01. Chair: Partha Chatterjee, CSSS 02.

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The contemporary urban in South Asia was a major focus of Sarai’s interests. Towards this end, we were committed to promoting critical research in the field, deploying varied theoretical perspectives and addressing multiple issues. In light of the fact that existing social science scholarship in the field was rather thin and theoretically unsophisticated, we felt that our intervention was both…

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Sangeet Chandu Thosar -Political Leadership of Women in Pune City: A Dalit Feminist study (1995-2007) Ipsita Sahu -Negotiating Boundaries: A comparative study of the Multiplex culture in the urban and the sub-urban space and the role of the multiplex in dissolving the urban and sub-urban boundary Agniv Ghosh -Nabababus and Their New Calcutta Rohit Prakash -Kalidas Rangalaya:Patna Ka Ek…

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This year’s subjects included engagements with dynamics of new urbanism in Pune, historical trajectories of matrimonial classifieds, Popular music and issues of regional and gendered identities urban memories and question of representations, narratives and desires, geographies of capital and labour in Trivandrum, historical construction of goondas in context of Great Calcutta Killings of 1946 and…

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In this third year, the Student Stipendship programme was further redesigned to include to more support from senior researchers at Sarai and greater public interactivity through regular postings on the urbanstudygroup list. Students were now expected to make a minimum of 5 postings on the list, outlining not only their research question but also the process of doing research and the primary and…

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On the basis of experiences of the first cycle and feedbacks from the community of researchers in the first year, a need was felt, this year,for a preliminary workshop. Most researchers also expressed the necessity for intellectual support in terms of articles, lectures on theoretical frameworks, suggestions regarding fieldwork and archival works. A preliminary workshop was organised in the second…

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The Student Stipendship Programme started as a part of City One Conference organised by Sarai/ CSDS in January 2003. The conference design included an innovative component for students who were offered an opportunity to attend the conference and also report on it on the Reader List and other forums. Invitation to attend the conference was through a public call that required students to submit a…

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