Colossus : the anatomy of Delhi / edited by Sanjoy Chakravorty, Neelanjan Sircar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chakravorty, Sanjoy, editor.

Sircar, Neelanjan, editor.

Series:

South Asia in the social sciences ; 15.

South Asia in the social sciences ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delhi (India)--Social conditions.

Delhi (India).

Delhi (India)--History.

Delhi (India)--Politics and government.

Delhi (India)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 407 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jul 2021).

ISBN:

1-009-03232-1

1-108-93565-6

OCLC:

1238128220