Middle India and Urban-Rural Development Four Decades of Change

Middle India and Rural-Urban Development explores the socio-economic conditions of an ‘India’ that falls between the cracks of macro-economic analysis, sectoral research and micro-level ethnography. Its focus, the ‘middle India’ of small towns, is relativ

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Barbara Harriss-White Editor

Middle India and Urban-Rural Development Four Decades of Change

Exploring Urban Change in South Asia Series editor Marie-Hélène Zérah, Institute of Research for Development, Paris, France and Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India Editorial Board Subrata Mitra, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Amitabh Kundu, School of Social Sciences, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India Pushpa Arabindoo, Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK Vyjayanthi Rao, Department of Anthropology, New School, New York, USA Haris Gazdar, Collective for Social Science Research, Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan Navdeep Mathur, Public Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India Eric Denis, Géographie-cités, Paris, France

About the Series The series will incorporate work on urbanization and urbanism in South Asia from diverse perspectives, including, but not being limited to, sociology, anthropology, geography, social policy, urban planning and management, economics, politics and culture studies. It will publish original, peer-reviewed work covering both macro issues such as larger urbanization processes and economic shifts and qualitative research work focused on micro studies (either comparative or ethnographic based). Both individual authored and edited books will be considered in the series with the possibility of identifying emerging topics for handbooks.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13432

Barbara Harriss-White Editor

Middle India and Urban-Rural Development Four Decades of Change

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Editor Barbara Harriss-White Wolfson College Oxford University Oxford UK

Exploring Urban Change in South Asia ISBN 978-81-322-2430-3 ISBN 978-81-322-2431-0 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2431-0

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