Subaltern Urbanisation in India : An Introduction to the Dynamics of Ordinary Towns.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (632 pages)
- Exploring Urban Change in South Asia Series .
- Exploring Urban Change in South Asia Series .
Intro -- Foreword -- An Alternate Paradigm -- Urban Dynamics of Small and Medium Towns -- Emergence of New Towns and In Situ Urbanisation -- A New Economic Geography, or Rurbanisation -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Editors and Contributors -- Acronyms and Guide to Numeral Conversion -- 1 Introduction: Reclaiming Small Towns -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Why Study Small Towns? -- 1.2.1 A Theoretical and Empirical Necessity -- 1.2.2 The Research Questions in This Book -- 1.3 Methodology: A Collective Research Project with a Multi-pronged Approach -- 1.4 The Relevance of a Decentred and D-hierarchised Approach to the System of Cities -- 1.4.1 Structurally Dispersed Demographic Growth Within the System of Cities -- 1.4.2 Dynamics of Employment -- 1.4.3 Small Towns as Cities of Unbounded Flow -- 1.5 Reclaiming the Notion of an Embedded Economy -- 1.5.1 From Long-Standing to New and Emerging Activities: The Economic Diversity of Small Towns -- 1.5.2 Understanding These Localised, Territorialised Economies: Economy, Land and Belonging -- 1.6 The Ordinary Nature of Small Towns: Banal Economies, Urban-Rural Linkages and Access to Urban Resources -- 1.7 Multiple Readings of Governance in and of Small Towns -- 1.7.1 Politics of the Rural-Urban Classification and Outcomes in Terms of Public Policy -- 1.7.2 Multiple Readings of Local Governance -- 1.7.3 The Metropolitanisation Effect -- 1.8 Conclusion -- References -- Placing Small Towns: Dynamics of Urbanisation and Systems of Cities -- 2 Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns in India -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Types of Urban Areas in India -- 2.3 Methodology of Defining Urban Areas in the Census -- 2.4 Data and Methodology -- 2.4.1 Matching of Settlements -- 2.5 Origin of CTs -- 2.6 Characteristics of New CTs -- 2.7 Contribution of New CTs to Urban Growth. 2.8 Estimate of the Contribution of Migration -- 2.9 Location of New CTs -- 2.9.1 New CTs and District Characteristics -- 2.9.2 Location of New CTs in the Proximity of Large Towns -- 2.9.3 New CTs and Built-up Agglomerations -- 2.10 CT: A New Phenomenon of India's Future Urbanisation? -- 2.11 Implications for Governance -- 2.12 Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Substantial Share of Small Towns in India's System of Cities -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Indian Small Towns: The Data in Question -- 3.2.1 Census Definition of Cities and Issues in Identifying Small Towns -- 3.2.2 Construction of a Harmonised Database for an Analysis of the Evolution of Small Towns -- 3.2.2.1 The Indiapolis Database: Cities as Morphological Agglomerations -- 3.2.2.2 From Large Villages to "Forgotten" Small Towns -- 3.3 Small Towns in the Indian Urbanisation Process -- 3.3.1 Small Towns: An Important Demographic Weight -- 3.3.2 A Slight Hierarchisation of the System -- 3.4 The Demographic Trajectories of Small Towns -- 3.4.1 Evolution of Small Towns in Relation to the Indian City System -- 3.4.2 The Demographic Evolution of Small Towns Is Independent of Their Distance from Major Economic Centres -- 3.4.3 Administrative and Political Context of Small Towns' Demographic Development -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Income Ranking of Indian States and Their Pattern of Urbanisation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Classification of States, Towns and Description of Variables -- 4.3 Extent and Pattern of Urbanisation Across Various States of India -- 4.4 UA and Growth of Towns -- 4.5 Manufacturing Industry and Its Urban Share -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5 Urbanisation in a Decade of Near Jobless Growth -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Exiting from Agriculture -- 5.2.1 Stages of the RNF Employment Transition -- 5.2.2 Is India an Outlier?. 5.2.3 Reclassification of Villages as Census Towns (CTs) -- 5.2.4 Inter-censal Changes in the Workforce -- 5.2.5 Inter-censal Changes in Occupation -- 5.3 Labour Market Indicators by Size Class of Towns -- 5.4 Concentration of Jobs -- 5.5 Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 Comparison of Peripheral Metropolitanisation in Haryana and Rajasthan, India -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 CTs and New Economic Geography -- 6.3 Research Methodology -- 6.4 Urbanisation Trends in Haryana and Rajasthan -- 6.4.1 Location and Emergence of CTs in Haryana -- 6.4.2 Existing Dynamics in Haryana -- 6.4.3 Employment and Census Towns -- 6.5 Urbanisation Trends in Rajasthan -- 6.5.1 Location of New CTs -- 6.5.2 Rural-Urban Interactions: A Case Study of Jamwa Ramgarh -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- 7 On Global and Multiple Linkages in the Making of an Ordinary Place: Parangipettai-Porto Novo -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Parangipettai Within the Distribution of India's Small Towns -- 7.3 Parangipettai: A Global Town -- 7.3.1 Sea Gate on the Indian Ocean, Historical Flows -- 7.3.2 Multi-layered Node in a Network: Trading, Diaspora and Remittances -- 7.3.3 Against the First Geographic Law: Distant Links Matter More -- 7.3.4 Locality, Region and Place as a Core Investment Space -- 7.4 Parangipettai Local Inhabitants' Affairs Embedded in Property History and Diaspora Visions -- 7.4.1 Land Control and Social Segregation -- 7.4.2 The Involvement of the Diaspora in Local Affairs -- 7.5 The Encounter of Parangipettai with the Coastal Mega Project Development Agenda -- 7.6 Conclusion: Trajectory of a Global Town -- Annexes -- Annex 1 -- Annex 2 -- References -- Land, Society, Belonging -- 8 Multilayered Urbanisation of the South Canara Territory -- 8.1 Introduction: Settings of Multiple Logics. 8.2 Setting and Theoretical Critique: Three Spaces of South Canara's Multilayered Territory -- 8.2.1 Sacred Moorings -- 8.2.2 Transport and Connectivity: A Historical Path -- 8.2.3 Embeddedness of the Fishing Territories Inland, at Sea and Ventures Overseas -- 8.2.4 Fishing Politics as Embedded Institutional Spaces -- 8.2.5 Constructing South Canara's Transnational Space -- 8.3 Conclusion: Autochthonous Terrains and Possibilities -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9 Practices of Territory in Small and Medium Cities of South India -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Conceptual Framework: Civic Territoriality, Tenure and Caste Relations -- 9.3 Patterns of Land Transformation and Influencing Factors -- 9.3.1 Patterns of Land Development -- 9.3.2 Influence of Land Tenure and Size on Land Development -- 9.3.2.1 Land Under Individual Ownership or Lease Tenure -- 9.3.2.2 Community Controlled Land -- 9.3.3 Spatial Histories and Civic Territoriality -- 9.4 Practices of Territory -- 9.4.1 Residential Layouts Along the Highway -- 9.4.2 Constitution of Educational Institution Territory -- 9.4.3 Small Workshop Territory -- 9.5 State Embedment in Society -- 9.6 Conclusion -- References -- 10 Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Migration and Indigeneity -- 10.3 Rights, Licences and Claims -- 10.4 Development as Territoriality -- 10.5 Indigeneity as Politics -- 10.6 Town, Village and Municipality -- 10.7 Discussion -- 10.8 Postscript on Methodology -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 11 Wealth, Mobility, Accretive Citizenship and Belonging: Why Everyone Comes to Kullu and How they Remain -- 11.1 Histories -- 11.1.1 Historical Urbanisation, Mountains, Mobility and Movement -- 11.1.2 The Post-independence Period-A Broad-Based Prosperity. 11.2 Contemporary Urban Metropolitanisation and what Drives It -- 11.2.1 Kullu Town's Urban Form -- 11.2.2 From the Urban Core to the Metropolitan Outskirts -- 11.2.3 Drivers of Urban Growth and Metropolitan Expansion -- 11.2.3.1 Institutional Urbanisation: The Varied Presence of the Institutional State -- 11.2.3.2 Hydroelectricity -- 11.2.3.3 Self-urbanisation: Markets, Horticulture, Trade and Transport -- 11.2.3.4 The Agricultural Surplus of Lahaul (and Spiti) -- 11.2.3.5 Tourism -- 11.2.3.6 Professional Services/Additional Transport Networks -- 11.3 Migration, Accretive Citizenship and Belonging: Why Everyone Comes to Kullu and How They Remain -- 11.3.1 Migration -- 11.3.2 Land, Accretive Citizenship and Belonging -- 11.3.3 Lahaulis and Kullu -- 11.3.4 Anyone Who Comes to Kullu Remains… -- 11.4 Conclusion: Languid Plentitude, Contentment, Movement -- References -- 12 Hindu Temples and Development of Localities in Tamil Nadu (South India) -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Historical Importance of Temples in Tamil Nadu and Their Contemporary Administration -- 12.2.1 The Historical Linkages Between Temples and Local Development -- 12.2.2 Temple Administration and Taxation -- 12.3 Old Public Temples and Their Localities -- 12.3.1 The Temple and the Origin of the Town -- 12.3.2 Urban Morphology of the "Temple City" -- 12.3.3 Activities on Public Temple Lands -- 12.4 Melmaruvathur: Guru Temple Trusts and Local Development -- 12.4.1 The Place and the Guru -- 12.4.2 Temple Trusts and Local Amenities -- 12.4.3 The "Real" Population of Melmaruvathur -- 12.4.4 Extended Landholdings and Worldwide Connections -- 12.5 New Temple Trusts: Landmarks, Real Estate and New Local Geographies -- 12.5.1 Evergetism at the Private Hanumān Temple -- 12.5.2 Real Estate Development -- 12.5.3 Reformulation of the Local Socio-Religious Geography. 12.5.4 A New Temple Trust to Buy Lands and Create Centrality.