Urbanization and governance in India / edited by Evelin Hust, Michael Mann.

"Centre de Sciences Humaines, South Asia Institute."

"A publication of the French Research Institutes in India & South Asia Institute, New Delhi"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references.

Governing India's urban environment : problems, policies, and politics / Bhaskar Vira and Shiraz Vira -- Planning of Indian mega-cities : issues of governance, the public sphere, and a pinch of civil society / Joël Ruet -- Women and urban development : do they make a difference? : a case study of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi / Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal -- Slum as achievement : governmentality, and the agency of slum dwellers / Martin Fuchs -- Towards an improved urban governance of public services : water supply and sanitation / Marie-Hélène Zérah -- Reflections on urbanization in water : infrastructure and local discourse in a town in the making / Bettina Weiz -- Waste and the city : public responses to the problems of municipal solid waste management in Indian metropolitan cities / Michael Köberlein -- Pigs and power : urban space and urban decay / Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp --

Planning urban chaos : state and refugees in post-partition Delhi / Ravinder Kaur -- Town-planning and urban resistance in the old city of Delhi, 1937-77 / Michael Mann -- Urban villages of Delhi / Ajay K. Mehra -- Residential practices, creation, and use of urban space : unauthorized colonies in Delhi / Véronique Dupont.

Contributed articles on urbanization, growth of cities and towns in India.