Urbanizing the Future
A New City Project in Agrarian South India
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2026
290 pages
978-1-83695-474-3 (ISBN)
Description
Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh, exemplifies India's policy thrust on urbanization. Tracing the rise, abandonment and revival of Amaravati, Urbanizing the Future delves into the ambitious plan to build a brand-new city in an agrarian landscape. The book unpacks the entanglements of caste, capital, and state power in shaping development through a regional lens. Urbanizing the Future highlights the disruptions and conflicts engendered by mega-projects as agricultural land is converted into urban real estate. Combining political economy and history with long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the Amaravati story offers a compelling critique of planned urbanization as a contested and uneven process in contemporary India.
Reviews / Votes
"I really enjoyed reading the book. It makes an important contribution to the field. It contributes novel empirical and theoretical material to debates within urban and agrarian studies, while establishing to my knowledge the only scholarly account of the renowned Amravati city-building program in India." * Thomas Cowan, University of NottinghamMore details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 20 Illustrations
File size
12,07 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-474-3 (9781836954743)
DOI
10.3167/9781836954736
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Person
Carol Upadhya is Honorary Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India, where she leads the Urban & Mobility Studies Programme. Her latest publication is Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru, co-edited with Vinay Gidwani and Michael Goldman (2024). She is also the author of Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy (2016) and co-editor of Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics (2018).
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Locating Amaravati
Chapter 2. Capital Futures
Chapter 3. Land of Speculation
Chapter 4. Urbanizing the Rural
Chapter 5. Unruly Lands
Chapter 6. Assetizing the Future
Chapter 7. Saving Amaravati
Conclusion
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Locating Amaravati
Chapter 2. Capital Futures
Chapter 3. Land of Speculation
Chapter 4. Urbanizing the Rural
Chapter 5. Unruly Lands
Chapter 6. Assetizing the Future
Chapter 7. Saving Amaravati
Conclusion
References
Index
