Urban Studies

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This book is part of the Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology series that brings together scholarly writings on important themes in sociology and social anthropology. Urban Studies deals with the sociological study of the Indian city and Urbanism. It draws from some of the most influential studies conducted on Indian cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata. It includes conceptual pieces on the making of the urban in India. Aspects of city life-planning, building, industry, trading, migration and health - are treated thematically, along with aspects of mass culture including films and the arts. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of urban sociology as well as policy planners, economic sociologists, culture studies scholars and activists.

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Table of contents

Section I - The Contemporary Urban Process; 1. The Colonial Bungalow-compound Complex in India: A Study in the Cultural Use of Space (Anthony D. King); 2. Urbanization in India: Patterns and Emerging Policy Issues (Rakesh Mohan); 3. Dualistic Labour System? A Critique of the 'Informal Sector' Concept (Jan Breman); 4. Reforms, Restructuring and the Third World City (Atiya Habeeb Kidwai); 5. Time for Work and Labour (Jim Masselos); Section II - The Indian Metropolis; 6. Structured Inequalities in a North Indian City (Adrian Peace); 7. Capital, the State, and Petty Trading in Calcutta (Nandini Dasgupta); 8. The Working Poor and the Labour Aristocracy in a South Indian City: A Descriptive and Analytical Account (John Hariss); 9. Dilapidation and Slum Formation (Ratna Naidu); 10. Town Planning, Public Health and Delhi's Urban Poor: A Historical View (Ritu Priya); Section III - Urban Space, The State, Politics and Collective Action;
11. Bombay and Mumbai: Identities, Politics, and Populism (Sujata Patel); 12. Economy and Civic Authority in Surat (Ghanshyam Shah); 13. Urban Conquest of Outer Delhi: Beneficiaries, Intermediaries and Victims: The Case of the Mehrauli Countryside (Anita Soni); 14. City Conflicts and Communal Politics: Ahmedabad 1985-86 (Sujata Patel); 15. The Case of Hyderabad City (Kushal Deb); Section IV - Urban Culture; 16. Nineteenth Century Calcutta: Folk Culture (Sumanto Banerjee); 17. Dining Out in Bombay/Mumbai: An Exploration of an Indian City's Public Culture (Frank F. Conlon); 18. Consuming Utopia (Film Watching in Tamil Nadu (Sara Dickey); 19. The Figure of the Bombay Tapori: Language, Gesture and the Cinematic City (Ranjani Mazumdar); 20. 'You Can be Lonely in a Crowd': The Production of Safety in Mumbai (Shilpa Phadke); Notes on Contributors