Colossus
Colossus
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USDThe National Capital Region of Delhi is a diverse and unequal space. Its more than 30 million people are sharply differentiated by economic class, religion and caste, education, language, and migration status. Its 45,000 square kilometres is a tapestry of spaces - ghettoes, slums, enclaves, institutional areas, planned and unplanned and authorized and unauthorized colonies, forests and agricultural fields. In some ways it is a dynamic society aspiring to global city grandeur; in other ways it is a bastion of tradition, sectarianism and hierarchy. Colossus details these realities and paradoxes under three themes: social change, community and state, and inequality. From the material condition of the metropolis - its housing, services, crime and pollution - to its social organization - of who marries whom, who eats with whom, and who votes for whom - this book unpacks the complex reality of a metropolitan region that is emblematic of India's aspirations and contradictions.
- Enlarges the coverage out of the usual focus area of central Delhi
- Provides insights from multidisciplinary perspectives, including economics, environmental science, geography, history, political science, sociology, and urban planning
- Focuses on social attitudes and relations, which is new in urban studies
Product details
October 2021Adobe eBook Reader
9781009032322
0 pages
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Sanjoy Chakravorty
- Part I. State of the Metropolis: Overview:
- 1. Geography and demography: Mapping the metropolis Shrobona Karkun
- 2. Assets and spatial inequality Neelanjan Sircar
- 3. Housing and settlements: Invisible planning, visible exclusions Patrick Heller, Partha Mukhopadhyay, Shahana Sheikh and Subhadra Banda
- 4. Services: Spatial inequality of basic infrastructure Shamindra Nath Roy
- 5 Migration: Persisting inequalities and spatial disadvantage Khushdeep Kaur Malhotra
- 6. Energy: electrifying the capital Radhika Khosla
- 7. Crime: Victimization in New Delhi – Insights from new data Milan Vaishnav and Matthew Lillehaugen
- Part II. Social and Political Change: Overview:
- 8. Religion, caste, class, politics: How urbanization affects social interactions and political behaviors Sumitra Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur
- 9. Marriage: When, to whom, and how people get married Megan N. Reed
- 10. Education: Understanding the gender gap in education and employment Deepaboli Chatterjee, Babu Lal, and Rimjhim Saxena
- 11. Spatial politics: Sociality, transparency and ideas of community in Delhi and Gurgaon Sanjay Srivastava
- 12. Politicians and netas: The politics of grievance and political intermediation Neelanjan Sircar
- 13. Political parties: The emergence of the Aam Aadmi Party and the changing contours of the party system Adnan Farooqui
- 14. Pollution: Vitiated air and thinking about Delhi's environment Awadhendra Sharan
- Statistical Appendix
- Index.
