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The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India: Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities
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This book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India. It is based on an ethnographic study in Noida, a city at the eastern fringe of the state of Uttar Pradesh, bordering national capital Delhi. The book demonstrates a flexible planning approach being central to the entrepreneurial turn in India’s post-liberalisation urbanisation, whereby a small-scale industrial township is transformed into a real-estate driven modern city. Its real point of departure, however, is in the argument that this turn can enable a form of illiberal community-making in new cities that are quite different from older metropolises. Exclusivist forms of solidarity and symbolic boundary construction - stemming from the differences across communities as well as their internal heterogeneities - form the crux of this process, which is examined in three distinct but often interspersed socio-spatial forms: planned middle-class residential quarters, ‘urban villages’ and migrant squatter colonies. The book combines radical geographical conceptualisations of social production of space and neoliberal urbanism with sociological and anthropological approaches to urban community-making. It will be of interest to researchers in development studies, sociology, urban studies, as well as readers interested in society and politics of contemporary India/South Asia.
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Contemporary India is showing increasing signs of ‘competitive’ authoritarian populism (Levitsky and Way, 2010). The mainstream political discourse in the country is dominated by the sectarian religious forces of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva, serving as the agency of a development narrative that promises to return India to its ‘greatness of yore’. In this paper, we examine the case of Noida, an upcoming satellite township adjacent to the capital New Delhi, to describe a process of spatial upheaval that is leading to continuous practices of ‘othering’. These processes are enabling the Hindutva forces to take root locally. In effect, we argue that local space-making has an intrinsic relationship with authoritarian populism, and it therefore needs to be at the analytical forefront.
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The overall objective of this Report is to evaluate the awareness and access to Samajik Suvidha Sangam (SSS) services by the community in selected GRCs of North-West Delhi. In addition, the assessment tries to evaluate the expressed needs of the communities in relation to livelihood, health, education and social security in the context of programmes launched by the SSS. The report also evaluates whether the opening of the GRCs meant easier and increased access to services and entitlements from the government and assess the building up of capacities through health and nutritional services, SHG formations and educational and training interventions. The study adopts a mixed methodology for the analysis both quantitative and qualitative. The major part of the data has been collected through a structured questionnaire survey at the household level. In addition to that, focus group discussions have been conducted with the community members at the GRC level and a number of in-depth interviews have also been conducted with the office bearers at the selected GRCs.
