Sai Balakrishnan. Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations along Urban Corridors in India

Abstract

What role do agrarian capitalism and regional caste/class formation play in the making of post-liberalization urban India? And, what can we learn from these agrarian-urban entanglements to better understand current processes of urbanization in India? These are some of the main questions Sai Balakrishnan specifically addresses in her book Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations along Urban Corridors in India. The book is an empirically rich and highly informative narrative of “agrarian-urban ...