Sadan Jha works on issues related to social and everyday life of cities in South Asia, history of visuality, symbols (Indian national Flag, Spinning Wheel and Bharat Mata), and history of colours. His publications include Reverence, Resistance and the Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag (2016); Devanagari Jagat ki Drishya Sanskriti (2018); Half Set Chay aur Kuchh Youn Hi (2018); Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City, (edited along with Dev Nath Pathak and Amiya Kumar Das, 2021); Leaving and Living: Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration, (edited along with Pushpendra, 2021); Neighbourhoods and neighbourliness in Urban South Asia (edited along with Dev Nath Pathak, 2022), and a number of academic as well as non-academic articles. He is currently Associate Professor at Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India.

• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Surat: An OverviewChapter 2: Caste in a Contemporary CityChapter 3: Cityscapes and Dalit DesiresChapter 4: A City of MigrantsChapter 5: NeighbourhoodsChapter 6: What Dwells in the Market Place?EpilogueBibliographyIndex

Sadan Jha works on issues related to social and everyday life of cities in South Asia, history of visuality, symbols (Indian national Flag, Spinning Wheel and Bharat Mata), and history of colours. His publications include Reverence, Resistance and the Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag (2016); Devanagari Jagat ki Drishya Sanskriti (2018); Half Set Chay aur Kuchh Youn Hi (2018); Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City, (edited along with Dev Nath Pathak and Amiya Kumar Das, 2021); Leaving and Living: Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration, (edited along with Pushpendra, 2021); Neighbourhoods and neighbourliness in Urban South Asia (edited along with Dev Nath Pathak, 2022), and a number of academic as well as non-academic articles. He is currently Associate Professor at Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India.

• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Surat: An OverviewChapter 2: Caste in a Contemporary CityChapter 3: Cityscapes and Dalit DesiresChapter 4: A City of MigrantsChapter 5: NeighbourhoodsChapter 6: What Dwells in the Market Place?EpilogueBibliographyIndex

Sadan Jha works on issues related to social and everyday life of cities in South Asia, history of visuality, symbols (Indian national Flag, Spinning Wheel and Bharat Mata), and history of colours. His publications include Reverence, Resistance and the Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag (2016); Devanagari Jagat ki Drishya Sanskriti (2018); Half Set Chay aur Kuchh Youn Hi (2018); Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City, (edited along with Dev Nath Pathak and Amiya Kumar Das, 2021); Leaving and Living: Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration, (edited along with Pushpendra, 2021); Neighbourhoods and neighbourliness in Urban South Asia (edited along with Dev Nath Pathak, 2022), and a number of academic as well as non-academic articles. He is currently Associate Professor at Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India.

• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Surat: An OverviewChapter 2: Caste in a Contemporary CityChapter 3: Cityscapes and Dalit DesiresChapter 4: A City of MigrantsChapter 5: NeighbourhoodsChapter 6: What Dwells in the Market Place?EpilogueBibliographyIndex