Urban Studies
by Patel, Sujata; Deb, KushalEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-12-10
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
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 ofthe 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, alongwith 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.
Author Biography
Sujata Patel is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pune in India.
Kushal Deb is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology.
Table of Contents
| List of Tables | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: Urban Studies: An Exploration in Theories and Practices, Sujata Patel | |
| The Contemporary Urban Process | |
| The Colonial Bungalow-compound Complex in India: A Study in the Cultural Use of Space | |
| Urbanization in India: Patterns and Emerging Policy Issues | |
| Dualistic Labour System? A Critique of the 'Informal Sector' Concept | |
| Reforms, Restructuring and the Third World City | |
| Time for Work and Labour | |
| The Indian Metropolis | |
| Structured Inequalities in a North Indian City | |
| Capital, the State, and Petty Trading in Calcutta | |
| The Working Poor and the Labour Aristocracy in a South Indian City: A Descriptive and Analytical Account | |
| Dilapidation and Slum Formation | |
| Town Planning, Public Health and Delhi's Urban Poor: A Historical View | |
| Urban Space, The State, Politics and Collective Action | |
| Bombay and Mumbai: Identities, Politics, and Populism | |
| Economy and Civic Authority in Surat | |
| Urban Conquest of Outer Delhi: Beneficiaries, Intermediaries and Victims: The Case of the Mehrauli Countryside | |
| City Conflicts and Communal Politics: Ahmedabad 1985-86 | |
| The Case of Hyderabad City | |
| Urban Culture | |
| Nineteenth Century Calcutta: Folk Culture | |
| Dining Out in Bombay/Mumbai: An Exploration of an Indian City's Public Culture | |
| Consuming Utopia: Film Watching in Tamil Nadu | |
| The Figure of the Bombay Tapori: Language, Gesture and the Cinematic City | |
| 'You Can be Lonely in a Crowd': The Production of Safety in Mumbai | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
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