Subaltern Urbanisation in India [electronic resource] : An Introduction to the Dynamics of Ordinary Towns / edited by Eric Denis, Marie-Hélène Zérah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Denis, Eric., Editor.

Zérah, Marie-Hélène., Editor.

Series:

Exploring Urban Change in South Asia, 2367-0045

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Urban geography.

Development economics.

Human Geography.

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).

Development Economics.

Local Subjects:

Human Geography.

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).

Development Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXXVI, 614 p. 72 illus., 39 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

Summary:

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 urbanisation dynamics and systems of cities with chapters on the new census towns, demographic and economic trajectories of cities and employment transformation. The interrelations of land transformation, social and cultural changes form the topic of the “land, society, belonging” section based on ethnographic work in various parts of India (Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu). A third section focuses on public policies, governance and urban services with a set of macro-analysis based papers and specific case studies. Understanding the nature of production and innovation in non-metropolitan contexts closes this volume. Finally, though focused on India, this research raises larger questions with regard to the study of urbanisation and development worldwide. .

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.