Colossus (eBook, PDF)

The Anatomy of Delhi
Redaktion: Chakravorty, Sanjoy; Sircar, Neelanjan

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Produktbeschreibung

The National Capital Region of Delhi is a diverse and unequal space. Its more than 30 million people are sharply differentiated by economic class, religion and caste, education, language, and migration status. Its 45,000 square kilometres is a tapestry of spaces - ghettoes, slums, enclaves, institutional areas, planned and unplanned and authorized and unauthorized colonies, forests and agricultural fields. In some ways it is a dynamic society aspiring to global city grandeur; in other ways it is a bastion of tradition, sectarianism and hierarchy. Colossus details these realities and paradoxes under three themes: social change, community and state, and inequality. From the material condition of the metropolis - its housing, services, crime and pollution - to its social organization - of who marries whom, who eats with whom, and who votes for whom - this book unpacks the complex reality of a metropolitan region that is emblematic of India''s aspirations and contradictions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009032322
• Artikelnr.: 70911559

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Sanjoy Chakravorty; Part I. State of the Metropolis: Overview:
1. Geography and demography: Mapping the metropolis Shrobona Karkun; 2.
Assets and spatial inequality Neelanjan Sircar; 3. Housing and settlements:
Invisible planning, visible exclusions Patrick Heller, Partha Mukhopadhyay,
Shahana Sheikh and Subhadra Banda; 4. Services: Spatial inequality of basic
infrastructure Shamindra Nath Roy; 5 Migration: Persisting inequalities and
spatial disadvantage Khushdeep Kaur Malhotra; 6. Energy: electrifying the
capital Radhika Khosla; 7. Crime: Victimization in New Delhi - Insights
from new data Milan Vaishnav and Matthew Lillehaugen; Part II. Social and
Political Change: Overview: 8. Religion, caste, class, politics: How
urbanization affects social interactions and political behaviors Sumitra
Badrinathan and Devesh Kapur; 9. Marriage: When, to whom, and how people
get married Megan N. Reed; 10. Education: Understanding the gender gap in
education and employment Deepaboli Chatterjee, Babu Lal, and Rimjhim
Saxena; 11. Spatial politics: Sociality, transparency and ideas of
community in Delhi and Gurgaon Sanjay Srivastava; 12. Politicians and
netas: The politics of grievance and political intermediation Neelanjan
Sircar; 13. Political parties: The emergence of the Aam Aadmi Party and the
changing contours of the party system Adnan Farooqui; 14. Pollution:
Vitiated air and thinking about Delhi's environment Awadhendra Sharan;
Statistical Appendix; Index.