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Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India: Ahmedabad 1900-2000: Royal Asiatic Society Books

Autor Tommaso Bobbio
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2018
Urbanisation is rapidly changing the geographic and social landscape of India, and indeed Asia as a whole. Issues of collective violence, urban poverty and discrimination become crucial factors in the redefinition of citizenship not only in legal terms, but also in a cultural and socio-economic dimension. While Indian cities are becoming the centres of a culture of exclusion against vulnerable social groups, a long-term perspective is essential to understand the patterns that shaped the space, politics, economy and culture of contemporary metropolises.
This book takes a critical, longer-term view of India’s economic transition. The idea that urban growth goes hand in hand with the modernisation of the country does not account for the fact that increasingly higher portions of the urban population are comprised of lower-income groups, casual labourers and slum dwellers. Using the case study of Ahmedabad, this book investigates the history of city and of its people over the twentieth century. It analyses the contrasting relationship between urban authorities and the inhabitants of Ahmedabad and examines instances of antagonism and negotiation – amongst people, groups and between the people and the public authority – that have continuously shaped, transformed and redefined life in the city.
This book offers an important tool for understanding the bigger context of the conflicts, the social and cultural issues that accompanied the broader process of urbanisation in contemporary India. It will be of interest to scholars of Urban History, studies of collective violence and South Asian Studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138319462
ISBN-10: 1138319465
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 10
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Royal Asiatic Society Books

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Introduction: Metropolis, collective violence, citizenship 1. Migration, prejudices and early industrialisation in the emergence of a modern metropolis 2. Neither rural nor urban: challenges and responses from a growing metropolis (1910s – 1940s) 3. The geography of social change 4. Another face of urban transformation: collective violence and mass movements, 1950s – 1970s 5. How to create a slum 6. How to create a ghetto 7. Decline and Resurgence 8. Urbanisation as a form of ‘routine violence’

Notă biografică

Tommaso Bobbio is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turin, Italy. He has conducted extensive research on the city of Ahmedabad. His recent articles include Never-ending Modi: Hindutva and Gujarati neoliberalism as prelude to all-India premiership? (Focaal, 2013) and Migrants, Slums and the Construction on Citizenship in Gandhi's Ahmedabad (1915 – 1930) (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2014).

Recenzii

"A deeply contextualized account of urban growth in the twentieth century, Urbanization, Citizenship and Conflict in India examines the changing nature of citizenship and identity politics in the "shock city" of Ahmedabad. Tracing the city’s development from industrial expansion to postindustrial transition, Tomasso Bobbio provides an account of contemporary urbanization in which the renegotiation of urban space, citizenship, and identity are closely tied to the spread and normalization of communal violence."
Sya Kedzior, Towson University, USA for H-Citizenship

Descriere

This book takes a critical, longer-term view of India’s economic transition.Using the case study of Ahmedabad, it investigates the history of city and of its people over the twentieth century.  It analyses the contrasting relationship between urban authorities and the inhabitants of Ahmedabad and examines instances of antagonism and negotiation – amongst people, groups and between the people and the public authority – that have continuously shaped, transformed and redefined life in the city.