Urbanizing the Future

Carol Upadhya is Honorary Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India, where she leads the Urban & Mobility Studies Programme. Her latest publication is Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru, co-edited with Vinay Gidwani and Michael Goldman (2024). She is also the author of Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy (2016) and co-editor of Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics (2018).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Locating AmaravatiChapter 2. Capital FuturesChapter 3. Land of SpeculationChapter 4. Urbanizing the RuralChapter 5. Unruly LandsChapter 6. Assetizing the FutureChapter 7. Saving AmaravatiConclusionReferencesIndex

“I really enjoyed reading the book. It makes an important contribution to the field. It contributes novel empirical and theoretical material to debates within urban and agrarian studies, while establishing to my knowledge the only scholarly account of the renowned Amaravati city-building program in India.” • Thomas Cowan, University of Nottingham