TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii LIST OF MAPS, FIGURES & TABLES v CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Globalizing Indian City at the Turn of the 21st Century 1 1.1 Globalization and Cities of the Global South Situating Globalization in Cities of the Global South The Globalizing Indian City 1.2 Hindutva Politics and the City The Rise of Hindu Nationalism Spatializing Hindutva Politics 1.3 Ahmedabad: Setting the Context Urban Growth, Development and Planning Post-Liberalization Urban Reforms and New Directions in Urban Development Hindutva Politics and the Communalization of Ahmedabad 1.4 Research Sites and Organization of the Study CHAPTER 2. Promoting and Envisioning Ahmedabad: The Politics of Urban Representations 66 2.1 Representing the City 2.2 Promotional Coupling of City and Region at the Vibrant Gujarat Events The Politics of Place Promotion The Cultural Discourse The Development Discourse 2.3 Mega-city Dreams and City Branding From Mega-City to Mega-city Dreams City Branding for the True and Fair Image of Ahmedabad Real-Estate Visions for Brand Ahmedabad 2.4 Contesting the Mega-City Development Desires and Party Politics Mega-City / Mehengha City 2.5 Place Promotion, Urban Ideologies and the Production of Urban Desires CHAPTER 3. The Post-Industrial Remaking of Ahmedabad: The Politics of Planning and Developing the Sabarmati Riverfront.124 3.1 Urban Landscapes of Entrepreneurialism 3.2 The Sabarmati River/Riverfront: From a Neglected Resource to Urban Regeneration 3.3 Riverfront Development and the Governance Landscape The Institutional Landscape The Political Landscape The Landscape of Other Stakeholders 3.4 Riverfront Development and Technologies of Planning Technologies of Entrepreneurial and Populist Planning: The Land-Use Plan Technologies of Populist Planning. Mapping the Slums Pursuing Investment and Global Imaginaries 3.5 The Politics of Entrepreneurial and Populist Planning in the Heart of the City CHAPTER 4. Negotiating the Right to the City: The Politics of Slum Resettlement and Protest on the Sabarmati Riverfront 15 4.1 The Contested City and Urban Informality 4.2 Resettlement: The View from the Slum 4.3 The Landscape of Protesting Actors 4.4 Practices of Protest and Claims-Making Political Patronage and Cut-Off Date Politics The Rights Discourse, Illegality and Legitimacy Building Collective Identity through Communal Unity Claims-Making through Governmentality from Below I 4.5 Urban Informality and the Right to the City CHAPTER 5. Reshaping the Heart of the Erstwhile Industrial City: The Politics of Redeveloping the Textile Mill Lands261 5.1 Landscapes of Deindustrialization and Redevelopment 5.2 The Textile Mill Areas: From Working Class Landscapes to a Politics of Othering 5.3 Mill Land Redevelopment and the Governance Landscape 5.4 Landscapes of Mill Land Redevelopment f Frontiers of Consumption and Property Development The Politics of Othering and Mill Land Redevelopment Geographies of Urban Segregation 5.5 Contesting the Mill Lands 5.6 Redevelopment at the Margins of the City CHAPTER 6. Conclusion The Globalizing City in the Time of Hindutva 321 BIBLIOGRAPHY 337 APPENDIX 348