Urban studies/
edited by Sujata Patel and Kushal Deb
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- x, 486 p. ; 22 cm.
- (Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology) .
The colonial bungalow-compound complex in India: a study in the cultural use of space / Anthony D. King -- Urbanization in India: patterns and emerging policy issues / Rakesh Mohan -- Dualistic labour system? a critique of the 'informal sector' concept / Jan Breman -- Reforms, restructuring and the third world city / Atiya Habeeb Kidwai -- Time for work and labour / Jim Masselos -- Structured inequalities in a north Indian city / Adrian Peace -- Captial, the state, and petty trading in Calcutta / Nandini Dasgupta -- The working poor and the labour aristocracy in a south Indian city: a descriptive and analytical account / John Harriss -- Dilapidation and slum formation / Ratna Naidu -- Town planning, public health and Delhi's urban poor: a historical view / Ritu Priya -- Bombay and Mumbai: identities, politics, and populism / Sujata Patel -- Economy and civic authority in Surat / Ghanshyam Shah -- Urban conquest of ourter Delhi beneficiaries, intermediaries and victims: the case of the Mehrauli countryside / Anita Soni -- City conflicts and communal politics: Ahmedabad 1985-86 / Sujata Patel -- Role of the state in city growth: the case of Byderabad city / Kushal Deb -- Nineteenth century Calcutta: folk culture / Sumanto Benerjee -- Dining out in Bombay/Mumbai: an exploration of an Indian city's public culture / Frank F. Conlon -- Consuming utopia: Film watching in Tamil Nadu / Sara Dickey -- The figure of the Bombay Tapori: language, gesture and the cinematic city / Ranjani Mazumdar -- 'You can be lonely in a crowd': the production of safety in Mumbai / Shilpa Phadke.