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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 urba...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Denis, Eric (Editor ), Zérah, Marie-Hélène (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi, India : Springer, [2017]
Colección:Exploring urban change in South Asia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: reclaiming small towns / Marie-Hélène Zérah and Eric Denis
  • Part I: Placing small towns: dynamics of urbanisastion and systems of cities. 2. Unacknowledged urbanisation: the new census towns in India / Kanhu Charan Pradhan ; 3. The substantial share of small towns in India's system of cities / Elfie Swerts ; 4. Income ranking of Indian states and their pattern of urbanisation / Basudeb Chaudhuri, Boishampayan Chatterjee, Mainak Mazumdar and Safayet Karim ; 5. Urbanisation in a decade of near jobless growth / S. Chandrasekhar ; 6. Comparison of peripheral metropolitanisation in Haryana and Rajasthan, India / Milap Punia, Rajnish Kumar, Laxman Singh and Sandeep Kaushik ; 7. On global and multiple linkages in the making of an ordinary place: Parangipettai-Porto Novo / Eric Denis and Zarin Ahmad
  • Part II: Land, society, belonging. 8. Multilayered urbanisation of the South Canara Territory / Solomon Benjamin ; 9. Practices of territory in small and medium cities of South India / Bhuvaneswari Raman ; 10. Territorial legends: politics of indigeneity, migration and urban citizenship in Pasighat / Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma ; 11. Wealth, mobility, accretive citizenship and belonging: why everyone comes to Kullu and how they remain / Diya Mehra ; 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. 13. The other Jawaharlal Nehru national urban renewal mission: what does it mean for small town India? / Sama Khan ; 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 ; 15. Purdah and politics: women's participation in local governance / Aditi Surie and Marie-Hélène Zérah ; 16. New urban territories in West Bengal: transition, transformation and governance / Gopa Samanta ; 17. Does administrative status matter for small towns in India? / Partha Mukhopadhyay
  • Part IV: Producing and innovating in non-metropolitan contexts. 18. Development on the urban fringe: the prosperity of Kartarpur, a small town-cluster in Punjab / Rémi de Bercegol and Shankare Gowda ; 19. From ox-carts to borewell rigs: maintenance, manufacture and innovation in Tiruchengode / Yann Philippe Tastevin ; 20. Globalisation, productive spaces and small town transformation: the case of Machlipatnam and Pedana in Coastal Andra Pradesh / N. Sridharan ; 21. Mapping small towns' productive and employment configurations / Elfie Swerts and Eric Denis ; 22. Commuting workers and the integration of the rural-urban economy / Ajay Sharma ; 23. Non-timber forest products and small town economies / Manoj Nadkarni.