Outline of the talk:
Is India really urbanizing at a rapid pace? What do we know about the migration of labour and capital? How does migration shape the contours of urbanization in India? And which cities are likely to grow rapidly in the coming years? This talk attempts to address these questions by providing an overview of the migration and urbanization dynamics of India over a hundred years. It highlights the Great Indian Migration Wave, remittance urbanism, transnational business, masculine urbanization and demographic divergence as some of the critical issues driving Indian migration and urbanization in the 21 st century.

Profile of the speaker:
Chinmay Tumbe loves to laugh and learn. He is a faculty member in the Economics Area of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA). He was the 2018 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School, and was an Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy & Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Hyderabad. He works on migration, cities, firms and history and is the author of the book India Moving: A History of Migration (Penguin, 2018). He has previously been associated with TISS-Hyderabad, European University Institute in Florence, LSE, IIM-Bangalore, Ruia College Mumbai and Rishi Valley School. He also chairs the IIMA Archives initiative and coordinates IIMA’s History Internship programme. He has published widely on topics on migration, and migration and labour markets, urbanization in India, and business history. His articles have appeared in several print and electronic media like Mint, scroll, Economic Times.
 
Prof. Tumbe received his Ph.D  (fellow) from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and graduated with M.Sc in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Sciences.