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Beyond its monuments, bureaucracy and pollution, there lies a Delhi which is at once more complex, intriguing and, at times, disturbing. This book is not a history of the ‘capital, but rather an attempt to trace the ever-changing relationships between people, power and place in contemporary urban life. It reveals a city shaped as much by migrants, businessmen, slum dwellers, politicians and conservationists as by architects and rulers. Bringing together the ...
This richly detailed ethnographic work tells the story of modern India`s period of deepest civil unrest and provides a gripping analysis of how state oppression was orchestrated and experienced in India`s capital during the Emergency.