Contents ix
Acknowledgements. ix
Part I. Introduction: Politics and Citizenship in India’s New ‘Urban’
1. Opening up or Ushering in? Citizen Participation as Mandate and Practice in Urban Governance Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath and M. Vijayabaskar 3
2. Outside Capital, Inside the Urban? Notes and Queries on the Politics of the Present Satish Deshpande. 34
Commentary 1. Permanence of the Temporary: Elite Utopia and Spatial Exclusion D. Ravikumar. 56
Part II. Participation, Privatisation and Politics: Case Studies from Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad
3. Financialised and Insurgent: The Dialectics of Participation in Bangalore’s Neoliberal Water Reforms Malini Ranganathan 65
4. From Watertight to Watered Down: The Case of Public Consultations and People’s Participation in Mumbai’s Water Distribution Improvement Project (WDIP) Zainab Bawa 89
5. Community Participation and Political Legitimacy: A Case Study from Hyderabad Anant Maringanti. 114
Commentary 2. Participation and Consultation in the Context of Municipal Infrastructure Financing K. Rajivan. 133
Commentary 3. City Infrastructure Development and the ‘Spectator Sport’ of Citizen Participation Vinay Baindur. 141
Part III. Class Claims: Civil Society and Split Citizenship in Urban India: Case Studies from Bangalore and Mumbai
6. Urban Reforms and the Middle Classes: Fragmented Collective Action and the Incomplete Project of Stakeholder Participation Lalitha Kamath and M. Vijayabaskar 151
7. Leveraging Mumbai: Global Finance, the State and Urban Politics Stephen J. Young. 174
Commentary 4. Visioning a World-class Slum-free Mumbai: Who Participates? Simpreet Singh. 195
Commentary 5. Middle-class Mobilisations: What Works Sebastian Devaraj. 199
Part IV. Democratisation, Decentralisation and Bhagidari: Case Studies from Delhi
8. Participation as a Support to Neo-populism? The Case of the Bhagidari Scheme Ste'phanie Tawa Lama-Rewal 207
9. RWAs and the Political Process in Delhi Diya Mehra. 222
Commentary 6. Middle-class Mobilisations, Urban Reforms, and the Politics of Bhagidari: Observations from New Delhi Lalit Batra. 240
Commentary 7. Direct Democracy versus Electoral Democracy: A View from Delhi K. T. Ravindran. 244
Part V. Anatomies of Consultative Processes: Case Studies from Chennai 10 Public Performances: Enacting Citizenship through Public Consultation for Chennai’s Second Master Plan Rowan Ellis 255
11. The Messy Practice of Participation: Lessons from the City Development Plan (CDP) Review in Chennai Nithya V. Raman. 276
Commentary 8. Consultations in Revising Chennai’s City Development Plan: Challenges and Insights M. G. Devasahayam. 298
Commentary 9. No Public in Public Consultations Nityanand Jayaraman. 302
Coda. Participolis: Protest and Participation in the City Amita Baviskar. 306
About the Editors. 310
Notes on Contributors. 311
Index 315