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The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India: Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities book cover

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The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities

By Ritanjan Das, Nilotpal Kumar Copyright 2023
276 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India. It is based on an ethnographic study in Noida, a city at the eastern fringe of the state of Uttar Pradesh, bordering national capital Delhi. The book demonstrates a flexible planning approach being central to the entrepreneurial turn in India’s... Read more

Prologue; Chapter One: Urban Space, Community-making and Illiberal Politics: A Theoretical Framework; Chapter Two: Producing a New Urban Space: City-making in Noida; Chapter Three: Fractured Secessions: Urban Communities in Noida; Chapter Four: Recreating a Nativist Rural: Community-making in Urban Villages; Chapter Five: The ‘Tainted Others’: Community-making in Noida Jhuggis; Chapter Six: Conclusion

Biography

Ritanjan Das is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India: A Contradictory Manifesto (2018), also published by Routledge.

Nilotpal Kumar is an Associate Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. He is the author of Unravelling Farmer suicides in India: Egoism and Masculinity in Peasant Life (2017).

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