About the Book
This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with urbanisation dynamics and systems of cities with chapters on the new census towns, demographic and economic trajectories of cities and employment transformation. The interrelations of land transformation, social and cultural changes form the topic of the “land, society, belonging” section based on ethnographic work in various parts of India (Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu). A third section focuses on public policies, governance and urban services with a set of macro-analysis based papers and specific case studies. Understanding the nature of production and innovation in non-metropolitan contexts closes this volume. Finally, though focused on India, this research raises larger questions with regard to the study of urbanisation and development worldwide.
Contents
1. Introduction: Reclaiming Small Towns / Marie-Hélène Zérah, Eric Denis
Part I: Placing Small Towns: Dynamics of Urbanisation and Systems of Cities
2. Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns in India / Kanhu Charan Pradhan
3. The Substantial Share of Small Towns in India's System of Cities / Elfie Swerts
4. Income Ranking of Indian States and Their Pattern of Urbanisation / Basudeb Chaudhuri, Boishampayan Chatterjee, Mainak Mazumdar, Safayet Karim
5. Urbanisation in a Decade of Near Jobless Growth / S. Chandrasekhar
6. Comparison of Peripheral Metropolitanisation in Haryana and Rajasthan, India / Milap Punia, Rajnish Kumar, Laxman Singh, Sandeep Kaushik
7. On Global and Multiple Linkages in the Making of an Ordinary Place: Parangipettai-Porto Novo / Eric Denis, Zarin Ahmad
Part II: Land, Society, Belonging
8. Multilayered Urbanisation of the South Canara Territory / Solomon Benjamin
9. Practices of Territory in Small and Medium Cities of South India / Bhuvaneswari Raman
10. Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat / Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma
11. Wealth, Mobility, Accretive Citizenship and Belonging: Why Everyone Comes to Kullu and How they Remain / Diya Mehra
12. Hindu Temples and Development of Localities in Tamil Nadu (South India) / Pierre-Yves Trouillet
Part III: Small Towns Between Rural and Urban Administration: Public Policies, Governance and Urban Services
13. The Other Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission: What Does It Mean for Small Town India? / Sama Khan
14. Shedding Light on Social and Economic Changes in Small Towns Through the Prism of Local Governance: A Case Study of Haryana / Marie-Hélène Zérah
15. Purdah and Politics: Women's Participation in Local Governance / Aditi Surie, Marie-Hélène Zérah
16. New Urban Territories in West Bengal: Transition, Transformation and Governance / Gopa Samanta
17. Does Administrative Status Matter for Small Towns in India? / Partha Mukhopadhyay
Part IV: Producing and Innovating in Non-metropolitan Contexts
18. Development on the Urban Fringe: The Prosperity of Kartarpur, a Small Town-Cluster in Punjab : Rémi de Bercegol, Shankare Gowda
19. From Ox-Carts to Borewell Rigs: Maintenance, Manufacture and Innovation in Tiruchengode / Yann Philippe Tastevin
20. Globalisation, Productive Spaces and Small Town Transformation: The Case of Machlipatnam and Pedana in Coastal Andra Pradesh / N. Sridharan
21. Mapping Small Towns' Productive and Employment Configurations / Elfie Swerts, Eric Denis
22. Commuting Workers and the Integration of the Rural-Urban Economy / Ajay Sharma
23. Non-timber Forest Products and Small Town Economies / Manoj Nadkarni
About the Author / Editor
Eric Denis, Géographie-cités Lab, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Géographie-cités Lab,Paris, France
Marie-Hélène Zérah, Centre for Social Sciences Studies on Africa, America and Asia (CESSMA, Paris), French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development (IRD), Paris, France. Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India
