1st Edition
Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia Subjectivities and Spatiality
Chapter 1. Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia: An Introductory Outlook
Sadan Jha and Dev Nath Pathak
Part I: Spatial Subalternity
Chapter 2. Becoming Urban: Subjectivities and Collective Lives in Gurgaon’s Urban Villages
Mukta Naik
Chapter 3. Neighbourly Nilphamari: Mediated Relationships in Bangladesh
Ratan Kumar Roy and Dev Nath Pathak
Chapter 4. Reclaiming Neighbourhoods through Informal Temporalities: Pettah, Sri Lanka
Kelum Palipane and Anoma Pieris
Chapter 5. From Growing Up in Durbarthok to Living in Kathmandu and Back: Places and Multiple Belonging in Nepal
Binit Gurung
Part II: Memory, Personal Experiences and Life History
Chapter 6. The Life and Times of Vijaya baji in Panjrapol: A Biography of a Lived Neighbourhood
Gauri Bharat
Chapter 7. In the Neighbourhood of Memory: Sensuous Space of Banglagarh, Darbhanga
Sadan Jha
Chapter 8. Reframing the Para? The ‘Muslim’ Neighbourhoods of Kolkata
Anasua Chatterjee
Part III: Politics of Othering and Stigma
Chapter 9. The Biharis of Orangi Town, Karachi: Experiences of Belonging and Neighbourliness Maliha Khan
Chapter 10. Invisible Refugee Neighbourhoods of Lucknow: Redefining the Neighbourhood as Gu'āṇḍha and Gali Môhollā
Anjali Gera Roy
Chapter 11. Neighborhood of Resilience and Hope: The Making and Re-making of Wanathamulla Nihal Perera, Nirmani Liyanage and Asanka Senadeera
Biography
Sadan Jha is Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India.
Dev Nath Pathak is a founding faculty member of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India.
