The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India

This book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India, based on Noida, Uttar Pradesh bordering Delhi. It will be of interest to development studies, sociology, urban studies, society and politics of contemporary India/South Asia.

Ritanjan Das is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India: A Contradictory Manifesto (2018), also published by Routledge. Nilotpal Kumar is an Associate Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. He is the author of Unravelling Farmer suicides in India: Egoism and Masculinity in Peasant Life (2017).

Prologue; Chapter One: Urban Space, Community-making and Illiberal Politics: A Theoretical Framework; Chapter Two: Producing a New Urban Space: City-making in Noida; Chapter Three: Fractured Secessions: Urban Communities in Noida; Chapter Four: Recreating a Nativist Rural: Community-making in Urban Villages; Chapter Five: The 'Tainted Others': Community-making in Noida Jhuggis; Chapter Six: Conclusion