The social life of streets in India : histories, contestations and subjectivities / edited by Sadan Jha, Gauri Bharat.

contributed articles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ntro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Table, Figures and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Streets Have Social Lives -Sadan Jha and Gauri Bharat -- 2 Becoming Streets: Rhythms and Geographies of Urban Practice in Bhuj -Himanshu Burte, Aditya Singh and Bhawna Jaimini -- 3 Street and Its Subalterns: Conversations on the Go -Sadan Jha -- 4 Sarani to Dharani: Street Life and the Remaking of Kolkata's Pasts-Aparajita De -- 5 Mobilising a Folk Art: Madhubani Paintings and the Aesthetic Transformation of a Patna Streetscape -Sprya Sharma
6 Class, Consumption and Culture: High Streets and the Neoliberal Imagination of the Indian Cities -Debapriya Ganguly and Rakesh M. Krishnan -- 7 Memories and Possibilities of Un/Equal Street: Linking Road, Mumbai-Kamalika Banerjee -- 8 Street-Space or Road-Space? Contested Mobility in Ahmedabad-Rutul Joshi -- 9 Theorising Contestations over Decongesting Street Economies: Beyond Narratives of Inevitable Dispossessions and Shared Commons-Varun Patil -- 10 The Messy Lives of Chokepoints: Infrastructure and Streets in the Hilly Town of Kalimpong-Anisa Bhutia
11 Taps, Walls, Seats: The Contested Street Commons in Veli, Kerala-Eva Thomas and Aishwarya Padmanabhan -- 12 Festivals on the Street-Aishwarya Morwal -- 13 Roadside Shrines in Ahmedabad: Subalternity, Religious Politics and the Shaping of the Street as a Public Realm-Gauri Bharat -- 14 Thinking through the Residual Shrines on the Roads of SEZ Hyderabad-Baishali Ghosh -- 15 Four Gullies and a Fortnight-Richa Jha -- Endnotes -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.