Description: Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India : Ahmedabad 1, Hardcover by Bobbio, Tommaso, ISBN 0415722446, ISBN-13 9780415722445, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK This study uses the city of Ahmedabad to explore the process of urbanization in 20th-century India. It examines the politics and planning interventions in different phases of the city's development; the official narratives that framed its political and economic history during the 20th century, and an alternative understanding to these public representations in terms of its citizenship and mass mobilization and increasing intolerance to the lower classes; and the relationship between the political level of urban administration and the discourses involved in the process of change, through the experiences of elder residents living mainly in the city's slums. After describing key events in the early stages of the industrialization and growth of Ahmedabad, it addresses how the city was expanded and administered in the four decades after Independence, up to the collapse of its textile sector in the 1980s, and how policies of urban planning magnified the gap between the upper and lower classes in terms of access to services, infrastructure and job opportunities, and urban space. It discusses the involvement of people, groups, and areas of the city in three episodes of mass mobilization and violence in early post-colonial times (the mobilization for the creation of a State of Gujarat in 1956, the 1969 Hindu-Muslim communal riots, and the 1973 Nav Nirman Andolan (Movement for the Re-Construction)); the emergence and expansion of slums; and the emergence of community-dominated areas where Muslim residents moved, and the effects on the geography of the city. The concluding chapters consider how the city reacted after the industrial crisis of the 1980s, including the social and cultural effects and the increased presence of violence. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India : Ahmedabad 1900-
Number of Pages: 206 Pages
Publication Name: Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India: Ahmedabad 1900-2000
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Item Height: 234 mm
Subject: Economics, Geography & Geosciences
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 454 g
Subject Area: Urban Planning
Author: Tommaso Bobbio
Item Width: 156 mm
Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books
Format: Hardcover
