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Format:
Paperback
496 pp.
140 mm x 215 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198062523

Publication date:
January 2009

Imprint: OUP India

Urban Studies

Edited by Sujata Patel and Kushal Deb

Series : Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology

This book is part of the Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology series that brings together scholarly writings on important themes in sociology and social anthropology. Urban Studies deals with the sociological study of the Indian city and Urbanism. It draws from some of the most influential studies conducted on Indian cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata. It includes conceptual pieces on the making of the urban in India. Aspects of city life - planning, building, industry, trading, migration and health - are treated thematically, along with aspects of mass culture including films and the arts. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of urban sociology as well as policy planners, economic sociologists, culture studies scholars and activists.

Readership : Students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, policy planners, economic sociologists, culture studies, urban studies, scholars and activists. Also for post-graduate and MPhil courses in Urban sociology and Urban India.

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Sujata Patel: Introduction - Urban Studies: An Exploration in Theories and Practices
Section I - The Contemporary Urban Process
1. Anthony D. King: The Colonial Bungalow-compound Complex in India: A Study in the Cultural Use of Space
2. Rakesh Mohan: Urbanization in India: Patterns and Emerging Policy Issues
3. Jan Breman: Dualistic Labour System? A Critique of the 'Informal Sector' Concept
4. Atiya Habeeb Kidwai: Reforms, Restructuring and the Third World City
5. Jim Masselos: Time for Work and Labour
Section II - The Indian Metropolis
6. Adrian Peace: Structured Inequalities in a North Indian City
7. Nandini Dasgupta: Capital, the State, and Petty Trading in Calcutta
8. John Hariss: The Working Poor and the Labour Aristocracy in a South Indian City: A Descriptive and Analytical Account
9. Ratna Naidu: Dilapidation and Slum Formation
10. Ritu Priya: Town Planning, Public Health and Delhi's Urban Poor: A Historical View
Section III - Urban Space, The State, Politics and Collective Action
11. Sujata Patel: Bombay and Mumbai: Identities, Politics, and Populism
12. Ghanshyam Shah: Economy and Civic Authority in Surat
13. Anita Soni: Urban Conquest of Outer Delhi: Beneficiaries, Intermediaries and Victims: The Case of the Mehrauli Countryside
14. Sujata Patel: City Conflicts and Communal Politics: Ahmedabad 1985-86
15. Kushal Deb: The Case of Hyderabad City
Section IV - Urban Culture
16. Sumanto Banerjee: Nineteenth Century Calcutta: Folk Culture
17. Frank F. Conlon: Dining Out in Bombay/Mumbai: An Exploration of an Indian City's Public Culture
18. Sara Dickey: Consuming Utopia (Film Watching in Tamil Nadu)
19. Ranjani Mazumdar: The Figure of the Bombay Tapori: Language, Gesture and the Cinematic City
20. Shilpa Phadke: 'You Can be Lonely in a Crowd': The Production of Safety in Mumbai
Notes on Contributors

There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.

Sujata Patel is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pune. Kuashal Deb is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

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Special Features

Part of the OIRSSA series.
Feeds into course structure of urban sociology in Indian universities.
Contains cutting-edge theoretical essays and empirical studies.
Well-known contributors.