Urbanisation, citizenship and conflict in India : Ahmedabad 1900-2000
Bobbio, Tommaso
Urbanisation, citizenship and conflict in India : Ahmedabad 1900-2000 - New York Routledge 2015 - xiii,206p. - Royal Asiatic Society Books : Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt series .
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations x
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Metropolis, collective violence, citizenship 1
PART 1 City vs countryside 23
1. Migration, prejudices and early industrialisation in the emergence of a modern metropolis 25
2. Neither rural nor urban: challenges and responses from a growing metropolis (1910s – 1940s) 40
PART 2 Fashioning the post-colonial city 61
3. The geography of social change 63
4. Another face of urban transformation: collective violence and mass movements, 1950s – 1970s 87
5. How to create a slum 111
6. How to create a ghetto 131
PART 3 Changing paradigms 151
7. Decline and Resurgence 153
8. Urbanisation as a form of ‘routine violence 176
Bibliography 185
Index 200
9781138379462
307.760954 / BOB
Urbanisation, citizenship and conflict in India : Ahmedabad 1900-2000 - New York Routledge 2015 - xiii,206p. - Royal Asiatic Society Books : Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt series .
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations x
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Metropolis, collective violence, citizenship 1
PART 1 City vs countryside 23
1. Migration, prejudices and early industrialisation in the emergence of a modern metropolis 25
2. Neither rural nor urban: challenges and responses from a growing metropolis (1910s – 1940s) 40
PART 2 Fashioning the post-colonial city 61
3. The geography of social change 63
4. Another face of urban transformation: collective violence and mass movements, 1950s – 1970s 87
5. How to create a slum 111
6. How to create a ghetto 131
PART 3 Changing paradigms 151
7. Decline and Resurgence 153
8. Urbanisation as a form of ‘routine violence 176
Bibliography 185
Index 200
9781138379462
307.760954 / BOB