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Slums: Of Labor and Democracy in Indian Cities - Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums. By Adam Michael Auerbach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvii, 304 pp. ISBN: 9781108491938 (cloth). - Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay. By Sheetal Chhabria. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. xi, 235 pp. ISBN: 9780295746289 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2021

Sai Balakrishnan
Sai Balakrishnan*
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University of California, Berkeley
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bkrishnan.sai@gmail.com
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 80 , Issue 2 , May 2021 , pp. 498 - 502
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1 Gilbert, Alan, “The Return of the Slum: Does Language Matter?,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31, no. 4 (2007): 697–713CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 On state informality, see Roy, Ananya, “Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization,” Planning Theory 8, no. 1 (2009): 76–87CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan, “Workers' Politics and the Mill Districts in Bombay between the Wars,” Modern Asian Studies 15, no. 3 (1981): 603–47CrossRefGoogle Scholar; see also Chandavarkar, , The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)Google Scholar.

4 On the explosive rise of unauthorized settlements since the 1970s, see, for instance, Holston, James and Caldeira, Teresa, “Urban Peripheries and the Invention of Citizenship,” Harvard Design Magazine 28 (2008): 18–23Google Scholar; Aguilar, Adrián and Ward, Peter, “Globalization, Regional Development, and Mega-City Expansion in Latin America: Analyzing Mexico City's Peri-Urban Hinterland,” Cities 20, no. 1 (2003): 3–21CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Jeffrey, Craig, Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.