India Moving - A History of Migration | Book Talk by Prof Chinmay, Asst. Professor IIMA
Swastik Nigam
Dear Alumni,
We are glad to invite you for a book talk by Chinmay Tumbe, Asst. Prof in Economics area at IIMA. Asst. Prof Chinmay is visiting London and interested to interact with alumni and other guests and also talk about his book "India Moving: A History of Migration".
Event details:
Time: 6pm onwards
Date: 15th November 2018
Venue: Infosys Technologies, 10 Upper Bank Street, E14 5NP
Please register at the below link to confirm your place. Further details about Prof. Chinmay and the book are as below.
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-and-interaction-with-chinmay-asst-professor-iima-tickets-52273562633
Speaker Profile:
Chinmay Tumbe is faculty member in the Economics Area of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and the 2018 Alfred D. Chandler Jr International Visiting Scholar in Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on migration, cities, firms and history. He chairs the IIMA Archives initiative and coordinates the History Internship series at IIMA. An alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, he has been a faculty member at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and was the 2013 Jean Monnet Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He has published widely on migration for a decade and has served on policymaking groups.
About the book:
From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala, Japan to Jamaica and beyond, the many facets of the great migrations of India and the world are mapped in India Moving: A History of Migration (2018), the first book of its kind. To understand how millions of people have moved — from, to and within India — the book embarks on a journey laced with evidence, argument and wit, providing valuable insights.