Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Neo Delhi as an image of thought; The integrity of the image; The global city; An urbanized planet; The essence of cities; Urban productions; The city as assemblage; Postcolonial cities; Urban depth of field; Neo Delhi; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; PART I: Distance and proximity in Delhi; Notes; Bibliography; 1 The urban; The Commonwealth Games; Urban mediation; The colonial city; The developmental city; Unintended developments
Between development and globalityDistance and proximity in the postcolonial city; Notes; Bibliography; 2 The neighborhood; Magical economics; Moving slums; Slum demolitions in Delhi; Urban renewal or removal?; Reading divergent spatial morphologies; Magical urbanism and urban metis; Economies of disappearance; Notes; Bibliography; PART II: Aura and trace in Gurgaon; Arrival; Synchrony and diachrony; Neoliberal urbanism; Crisis; Arrested development; Is that all?; Notes; Bibliography; 3 The district; Old Gurgaon; New Gurgaon; Land laws in Haryana; DLF; Public-private partnership
Public-private competitionA speculative ecology; DLF and HUDA; Property brokers; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 4 The enclave; I feel like I have left India! -- Gurgaon collapsing -- Mediating modernity; I am Gurgaon; I am Gurgaon -- Haunted auras; Notes; Bibliography; 5 The village; Ambiguous journeys; Street ethnography in an urbanized village; On the Metro; MG Road; Deepak; Manu; Chakkarpur Village Road; Ashish; Nambardar market; Bipin Kumar; Chandra Prakash; Kadam Singh's jhuggi; Mathihur; Uttaranchal Hotel; Mahesh; Numbers 90 and 91; Hajera; Chaupal; Soiza; Amma
The post-rural villageNotes; Bibliography; Conclusion: partitioned communities of sense; Notes; Index
