1st Edition
Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India Ahmedabad 1900-2000
Introduction: Metropolis, collective violence, citizenship 1. Migration, prejudices and early industrialisation in the emergence of a modern metropolis 2. Neither rural nor urban: challenges and responses from a growing metropolis (1910s – 1940s) 3. The geography of social change 4. Another face of urban transformation: collective violence and mass movements, 1950s – 1970s 5. How to create a slum 6. How to create a ghetto 7. Decline and Resurgence 8. Urbanisation as a form of ‘routine violence’
Biography
Tommaso Bobbio is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turin, Italy. He has conducted extensive research on the city of Ahmedabad. His recent articles include Never-ending Modi: Hindutva and Gujarati neoliberalism as prelude to all-India premiership? (Focaal, 2013) and Migrants, Slums and the Construction on Citizenship in Gandhi's Ahmedabad (1915 – 1930) (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2014).
"A deeply contextualized account of urban growth in the twentieth century, Urbanization, Citizenship and Conflict in India examines the changing nature of citizenship and identity politics in the "shock city" of Ahmedabad. Tracing the city’s development from industrial expansion to postindustrial transition, Tomasso Bobbio provides an account of contemporary urbanization in which the renegotiation of urban space, citizenship, and identity are closely tied to the spread and normalization of communal violence."
Sya Kedzior, Towson University, USA for H-Citizenship
