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In the Shadow of the Mill

In the Shadow of the Mill

In the Shadow of the Mill

Workers' Neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000s
Rukmini Barua , Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
January 2023
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    This book traces the socio–spatial transformation of Ahmedabad's worker neighbourhoods over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - during which the city witnessed dramatic and disturbing transformations. It follows the multiple histories of Ahmedabad's labour landscapes from the times when the city acquired prominence as an important site of Gandhian political activity and as a key centre of the textile industry, through the decades of industrial collapse and periods of sectarian violence in the recent years. Taking the working-class neighbourhood as a scale of social practice, the question of urban change is examined along two axes of investigation: the transformation of local political configurations and forms of political mediation and the shifts in the social geography of the neighbourhood as reflected in the changing regimes of property.

    • Combines both archival and ethnographic methods to write a historical ethnography of two workers' neighbourhoods
    • Study of the city's history presents a way of approaching broader historical processes while engaging with specifically local questions

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    January 2023
    Hardback
    9781108838115
    300 pages
    236 × 160 × 23 mm
    0.55kg
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    Table of Contents

    • List of Figures
    • List of Tables
    • Introduction
    • 1. Setting the stage: A brief political history of Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000s
    • Part I. Incarnations of the Political Intermediary:
    • 2. The TLA and dadagiri: Mediation in the mill neighbourhoods
    • 3. The underground economy, the state and the political intermediary
    • 4. Civil society, 'social work' and political mediation
    • Part II. Property and Precarity:
    • 5. Chawls without chimneys
    • 6. Violence, law and 'Ghettoisation'
    • 7. Security and tenancy at the margins of the city
    • Conclusion
    • Glossary
    • References
    • Index.
      Author
    • Rukmini Barua

      Rukmini Barua is a senior researcher at Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute of Development, Berlin. Prior to this she was at Humboldt University, Berlin. Her areas of interest include informal labour, political economy, urban studies and labour history in Modern South Asia.

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