- 324 pages
- English
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About this book
We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into the Delhi's urban fray in the 1950s. As these villages transform physically; their residents, an agrarian-pastoralist community - the Jats - also transform into dabblers in real estate. A study of two villages - Munirka and Shahpur Jat - both in the heart of bustling urban economies of Delhi, reveal that it is 'rent' that could define this suburbanisation. 'Bhaichara', once a form of land ownership in colonial times, transforms into an affective claim of belonging, and managing urban property in the face of a steady onslaught from the 'city'. Properties of Rent is a study of how vernacular form of capitalism and its various affects shape up in opposition to both state, finance capital and the city in contemporary urban Delhi.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Review
- Properties of Rent
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Abbreviations
- Units of Measurement
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Creating Values of Land: Law, Records and Kabza
- 2 From Buying Land, Owning Taxis to Becoming Landlords: The Changing Economic Landscape of Villages
- 3 Villages of the City: Ordering Spaces and Aspirations in Neoliberal Times
- 4 In the Shadows of the State: Community as a Mode of Political and Economic Organisation
- 5 Culture, Gender and Belongingness?: City and the Violence of Rent
- 6 The Fringes of the Cartel: How the Marginalised Become Landlords
- 7 The Allure of Politics: The Candidates, the Cadre and the Euphoria of Elections
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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