Indian diaspora has had a complex and multifaceted role in
catalyzing, justifying and promoting a transformed urban landscape
in India. Focussing on Kolkata/ Calcutta, this book analyses the
changing landscapes over the past two decades of one of the world s
most fascinating and iconic cities. Previously better known due to
its post-Independence decline into overcrowded poverty, pollution
and despair, in recent years it has experience a revitalization
that echoes India s renaissance as a whole in the new
millennium.
This book weaves together narratives of migration and diasporas,
postmodern developmentalism and neoliberal urbanism, and identity
and belonging in the Global South. It examines the rise of
middle-class environmental initiatives and Kolkata s attempts to
reclaim its earlier global status. It suggests that a form of
global gentrification is taking place, through which people and
place are being fundamentally restructured. Based on a decade s
worth of field research and investigation in multiple sites -
metropolitan centers connected by long histories of empire,
migration, economy, and culture - it employs a multi-methods
approach and uses ethnographic, semi-structured interviews as well
as archival research for much of the empirical data collected.
Addressing urban change and policies, as well as spatial and
discoursive transformations that are occurring in India, it will be
of interest to researchers in the field of urban geography, urban
and regional planning, environmental studies, diaspora studies and
South Asian studies.
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