Subaltern Urbanisation in India : An Introduction to the Dynamics of Ordinary Towns

This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with urban...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Denis, Eric (Editor), Zérah, Marie-Hélène (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesExploring Urban Change in South Asia,
Subjects
Social sciences.
Urban geography.
Development economics.
Human geography.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Reclaiming small towns Marie-Hélène Zérah & Eric Denis
  • Part I Placing Small Towns: Dynamics of Urbanisation and Systems of cities
  • Chapter 2. Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns in India Kanhu C. Pradhan
  • Chapter 3. The substantial share of small towns in India's system of cities Elfie Swerts
  • Chapter 4. The Income Ranking of Indian States and their Pattern of Urbanisation Basudeb Chaudhuri, Boishompayan Chatterjee, Mainak Mazumdar, Safayet Karim
  • Chapter 5. Urbanisation in a decade of near jobless growth S. Chandrasekhar
  • Chapter 6. Comparison of Peripheral Metropolitisation in Haryana and Rajasthan, India Milap Punia, Rajnish Kumar, Laxman Singh and Sandeep Kaushik
  • Chapter 7. On global and Multiple Linkages in the making of an Ordinary place: Parangipettai-Porto Novo Eric Denis and Zarin Ahmed
  • Part II Land, Society, Belonging
  • Chapter 8. The multilayered urbanisation of the South Canara territory Solomon Benjamin
  • Chapter 9. Practices of Territory in Small and Medium Cities of South India Bhuvaneswari Raman
  • Chapter 10. Territorial legends: Politics of indigeneity, migration and urban citizenship in Pasighat Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma
  • Chapter 11. Wealth, Mobility, Accretive Citizenship and Belonging: Why Everyone Comes to Kullu, and How they Remain Diya Mehra
  • Chapter 12. Hindu temples and development of localities in Tamil Nadu (South India) Pierre-Yves Trouillet
  • Part III. Small towns between rural and urban administration: Public Policies, Governance and Urban Services
  • Chapter 13. The Other Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission: what does it mean for small town India? Sama Khan
  • Chapter 14. Shedding light on social and economic changes in small towns through the prism of local governance: A case study of Haryana Marie-Hélène Zérah
  • Chapter 15. Purdah and Politics: Women's Participation in Local Governance Aditi Surie and Marie-Hélène Zérah
  • Chapter 16. New Urban Territories in West Bengal: Transition, Transformation and Governance Gopa Samanta
  • Chapter 17. Does administrative status matter for small towns in India? Partha Mukhopadhyay
  • Part IV Producing and Innovating in non-metropolitan contexts
  • Chapter 18. Development on the urban fringe: the prosperity of Kartarpur, a small town-cluster in Punjab Rémi de Bercegol and Shankare Gowda
  • Chapter 19. From Ox-Carts to Borewell rigs: Maintenance, Manufacture and Innovation in Tiruchengode Yann Philippe Tastevin
  • Chapter 20. Globalisation, Productive Spaces and Small Town Transformation: The case of Machlipatnam and Pedana in Coastal Andra Pradesh N. Sridharan
  • Chapter 21. Mapping small towns' productive and employment configurations Elfie Swerts and Eric Denis
  • Chapter 22. Commuting Workers and the Integration of the Rural-Urban Economy Ajay Sharma
  • Chapter 23. Non-Timber Forest Products and Small Town Economies Manoj Nadkarni.

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