Despite becoming a global economic force, why does India win so few Olympic medals and
have so many people living in poverty? Why have opportunities not become available more …

This study of 14 Bangalore slum communities, including detailed interviews with 1,481
residents, represents an initial effort to study social mobility in India's largest cities, where …

The study addresses disaster risks in Delhi through a resilience approach. It utilizes the
Climate Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI) tool, which assesses disaster resilience from five …

Having grown considerably in the past two decades, Indian cities have become highly
unequal spaces–economically, spatially, socially and culturally. Both quantitative …

Slums living people are very poor and their socio-economic condition does not allow them to
live a healthy life. They do not have access to sanitation and they cannot get safe water …

Poverty and vulnerability to poverty are major challenges facing developing countries and
have attracted the attention of development economists and policy analysts in recent years …

This essay analyzes the political economy of lifestyle that frames middle class consumption
in post-liberalization India. The essay argues that the new middle class in India is part of a …

During the last two decades, rapid economic growth and development in India has been
based upon the mass employment of informal labour. Using case studies from three urban …

Cities are the growth engine of national wealth and income production; however large
number of city dwellers circumvents from the mainstream, are snubbed dwellers called slum …

In this fascinating and challenging work, the author analyses the way water for drinking is
produced, distributed, owned, acquired and consumed in contrasting ways in different …