CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors vii
Series Editors' Preface ix
Preface and Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction: Contesting the Indian City:
Global Visions and the Politics of the Local 1
Gamn Shatkin and Sanjeev Vidyarlhi
2 Contested Developments: Enduring legacies and
Emergent Political Actors in Contemporary Urban India 39
Liza Weinsldn, Neha Sami, and Gamn Shatkin
3Conflict and Commensuration : Contested Market
Making in India's Private Real Estate Development Sector 65
Llerena Cuiu Searle
4 "One-Man Handled": Fragmented Power and
Political Eritrepreneurship in Globalizing Mumbai 91
Liza Weinstein
5 Power to the People? A Study of Bangalore's
Urban Task Forces 121
Neha Sami
6 Social Conflict and the Neolibcral City: A Case of
Hindu-Muslim Violence in India 145
Ipsita Chatterjee
7 Genlrifying the State: Governance, Participation, arid
the Rise of Middle-Class Power in Delhi 176
D. Asher Ghertner
8 Becoming a Slum: From Municipal Colony to Illegal
Settlement in Liberalization Era Murnbai 208
Lisa Bjvrkman
9 Building a "World Class Heritage City": Jaipur's Emergent
Elites and the New Approach to Spatial Planning 241
Sanjeev Vidyarlhi
10 Planning Maiigalore: Garbage Collection in a
Small Indian City 265
Neema Kudva
11 Comparative Perspectives on Urban Contestations:
India and China 293
Gavin Shatkin
Index 311