Betweeen violence and desire: space, power and identitity in the making of metropolitan Delhi

This article discusses Indian state-making through the interventions within Delhi via the effort to improve the environmental ‘quality of life’ for Delhi’s bourgeoisie. This article focuses on working class struggles for civic rights and entitlements.

This paper finds that:

• around the making of Delhi as a ‘clean and green’ city, there are powerful contestations around the making of urban place and personhood.
• this contestation is grounded in the negotiation of multiple and shifting fields of power
• this process is full of contradictions and compromises that radically transform this project