In the Shadow of the Mill: Workers' Neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000s - Hardcover

Barua, Rukmini

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108838111 ISBN 13: 9781108838115

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108838111
• ISBN 13: 9781108838115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300