Acknowledgments -- Preface -- List of images -- Introduction -- New urban politics -- Accumulation, estrangement, and displacement -- Resettlement and the territorialization of exploitation -- Of unruly practices and resistance -- Reversing the arrow? : theory transfer and theory-building --...

The ‘new urban politics’ literature highlights local entrepreneurialism as the basis of neo-liberal urbanism; this article adds to this literature by demonstrating how entrepreneurial neo-liberalism and ethno-religiosity are inflected in governance. Two concepts are proposed: ‘governance...

Waquar Ahmed examines the evolution of electric-power policy in India by drawing linkages between global and local national discourses, of development. He focuses on the objectives and goals of the developmental state of India after the end of colonial occupation, and how the transition from...

Neoliberal transformation is not simply a top-down process. Neoliberal hegemony at the global level has an ally in the Indian elite in producing class-biased economic growth at the national scale. Tis paper examines the social contestations around India’s economic policy regime, its...

1. Neoliberalism, inequality, and development / Richard Peet -- 2. From mixed economy to neoliberalism : class and caste in India's policy transition / Waquar Ahmed -- 3. Urban system in India : trends, economic base, governance, and a perspective of growth under globalization / Amitabh Kundu --...