TY  - GEN
AU  - Rukmini Barua
TI  - In the shadow of the mill : worker's neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad
SN  - 9781108838115
U1  - 307.3362 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Ahmadābād (India) Social conditions
KW  - Ahmada�ba�d (India) Politics and government
KW  - Ahmada�ba�d (India) Social conditions
KW  - Company towns
KW  - Company towns India Ahmada�ba�d History
KW  - Neighborhoods
KW  - Neighborhoods India Ahmada�ba�d History
KW  - Textile industry
KW  - Textile industry India Ahmada�ba�d History
KW  - Working class
KW  - Working class India Ahmada�ba�d History
N1  - Contents
List of Figures               vii
List of Tables    ix      
Acknowledgements          xi
Introduction    1
1. Setting the stage: A brief political history of Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000s        31
Part I. Incarnations of the Political Intermediary       63
2. The TLA and dadagiri: Mediation in the mill neighbourhoods    70
3. The underground economy, the state and the political intermediary   96
4. Civil society, 'social work' and political mediation        134
Part II. Property and Precarity   173
5. Chawls without chimneys     178
6. Violence, law and 'Ghettoisation'      213
7. Security and tenancy at the margins of the city  238
Conclusion    266
Appendix        273
Glossary      275
References       277
Index        297

ER  -