Table of Contents

1. Space, Place and Globalisation: Revisiting the Urban Neighbourhood in India Henrike Donner and Geert De Neve 2. Economic Liberalisation, Class Restructuring and Social Space in Provincial South India Geert De Neve 3. ‘Establishing Territory’: The Spatial Bases and Practices of the DPI Hugo Gorringe 4. Local Governance: Politics and Neighbourhood Activism in Calcutta Indranil Chakrabarti 5. Temples and Charity: The Neighbourhood Styles of the Komati and Beeri Chetty Merchants of Madras City Mattison Mines 6. Parhai Ka Mahaul? An Educational Environment in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey 7. The Politics of Gender, Class and Community in a Central Calcutta Neighbourhood Henrike Donner 8. Anonymous Encounters: Class Categorisation and Social Distancing in Public Places Kathinka Frøystad 9. Conformity and Contestation: Social Heterogeneity in South Indian Settlements Penny Vera-Sanso 10. The Rituals of Rehabilitation: Rebuilding an Urban Neighbourhood after the Gujarat Earthquake of 2001 Edward Simpson

About the Author

Geert De Neve is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. He has a specific interest in issues of anthropology and globalisation, as well as a more general interest in processes of migration, modernity and social transformation. Henrike Donner is Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, UK. She is an urban anthropologist and has worked extensively in Calcutta, India. Her research interests are focused on gender and kinship, education, reproductive change, middle-class lifestyles, urban space and politics.