Cities in South Asia

Economic liberalisation has led to uniquely rapid urban growth in South Asia during the past decade. This book brings together a multidisciplinary collection of chapters on contemporary and historical themes explaining this recent explosive growth and transformations on-going in the cities of this region. By tracing the genealogies of cities, it gives a useful insight into the historical conditioning that determines how cities negotiate new changes and influences.It will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian History, Politics and Anthropology, as well as those working in the fields of urbanisation and globalisation.

Crispin Bates is Professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Minoru Mio is the Director of the Centre for Contemporary India Area Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan.