Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Preface ix
Preface and Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction: Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local 1 Gavin Shatkin and Sanjeev Vidyarthi
2 Contested Developments: Enduring Legacies and Emergent Political Actors in Contemporary Urban India 39 Liza Weinstein, Neha Sami, and Gavin Shatkin
3 Conflict and Commensuration: Contested Market Making in India’s Private Real Estate Development Sector 65 Llerena Guiu Searle
4 “One-Man Handled”: Fragmented Power and Political Entrepreneurship in Globalizing Mumbai 91 Liza Weinstein
5 Power to the People? A Study of Bangalore’s Urban Task Forces 121 Neha Sami
6 Social Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A Case of Hindu–Muslim Violence in India 145 Ipsita Chatterjee
7 Gentrifying the State: Governance, Participation, and the Rise of Middle-Class Power in Delhi 176 D. Asher Ghertner
8 Becoming a Slum: From Municipal Colony to Illegal Settlement in Liberalization Era Mumbai 208 Lisa Björkman
9 Building a “World Class Heritage City”: Jaipur’s Emergent Elites and the New Approach to Spatial Planning 241 Sanjeev Vidyarthi
10 Planning Mangalore: Garbage Collection in a Small Indian City 265 Neema Kudva
11 Comparative Perspectives on Urban Contestations: India and China 293 Gavin Shatkin
Index 311
