Contesting the Indian City

Gavin Shatkin is Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. His research focuses on contemporary urban redevelopment practices in Asian cities, urban inequality, and community organizing and collective action around issues of shelter and infrastructure delivery. His book Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila was published in 2007.

• Series Editors’ Preface ixPreface and Acknowledgments x1 Introduction: Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local 1Gavin Shatkin and Sanjeev Vidyarthi2 Contested Developments: Enduring Legacies and Emergent Political Actors in Contemporary Urban India 39Liza Weinstein, Neha Sami, and Gavin Shatkin3 Conflict and Commensuration: Contested Market Making in India’s Private Real Estate Development Sector 65Llerena Guiu Searle4 “One-Man Handled”: Fragmented Power and Political Entrepreneurship in Globalizing Mumbai 91Liza Weinstein5 Power to the People? A Study of Bangalore’s Urban Task Forces 121Neha Sami6 Social Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A Case of Hindu–Muslim Violence in India 145Ipsita Chatterjee7 Gentrifying the State: Governance, Participation, and the Rise of Middle-Class Power in Delhi 176D. Asher Ghertner8 Becoming a Slum: From Municipal Colony to Illegal Settlement in Liberalization Era Mumbai 208Lisa Björkman9 Building a “World Class Heritage City”: Jaipur’s Emergent Elites and the New Approach to Spatial Planning 241Sanjeev Vidyarthi10 Planning Mangalore: Garbage Collection in a Small Indian City 265Neema Kudva11 Comparative Perspectives on Urban Contestations: India and China 293Gavin ShatkinIndex 311

“This volume is sure to provide a useful set of framings and background for scholars, policy-makers and activists to make sense of fragmented and undemocratic governance in India’s cities.”  (Urban Studies, 1 May 2015)