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IN RETROSPECT

By: NILOTPAL KUMAR DUTTA

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Neel is a young inquisitive boy from Bihar growing up in the Indian Mining township of Dhanbad, when TV had not touched lives in small towns and the internet was still a few decades away. Now a corporate executive, he looks back on how he reached here and contrasts his growing up years to that of his son, without being judgmental. The journey of growing up and discovery is filled with humour and emotions. It explores a young boy's desire for recognition, little triumphs, occasional fumbles, involvement of family in defining professional goals, chasing of those goals, compromised choices, and constant struggle with self-doubt and indecision.

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PartridgeIndia

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1482839369

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9781482839364

The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India

Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities

By: Ritanjan Das,Nilotpal Kumar

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The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India

Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities

By: Ritanjan Das,Nilotpal Kumar

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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Taylor & Francis

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1000864340

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9781000864342

Balli of Bagdih

By: Nilotpal Dutta

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Balli of Bagdih

By: Nilotpal Dutta

Smart and confident Balli has a deep connection with Bagdih, a coal mine in a fairly remote part of Bihar where his father works and where his Nana had chosen to work after the partition of India. Bagdih, which nurtures everyone who comes to earn livelihood and still holds no grudge when they never return, has a special relationship with Balli, whom she finds so much like herself. Growing up in a small colony, Balli builds his beautiful world with Samar and lovely Samaira, whom he loves and feels fiercely protective about. As he helplessly watches his world slowly disintegrate due to misunderstandings and unmet expectations, he only has his promise of joining the Indian Army made to Nana and affection of a much older Shambhu to keep him moving. Balli leaves the place that gave him everything to pursue his goals only to return years later on a rescue mission. As he encounters several emotions on his return and goes through upheavals, he finds solace only in Bagdih’s serene lap. Set in the later part of twentieth century, ‘Balli of Bagdih’ is a depiction of how the characteristics of a place can build the character of a person born and brought up there.

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Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd

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9356109346

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9789356109346

The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India

Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities

By: Ritanjan Das,Nilotpal Kumar

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Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities

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IN RETROSPECT

IN RETROSPECT

The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India

The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India

Balli of Bagdih

Balli of Bagdih

The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India

The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India

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