Properties Of Rent: Community, Capital And Politics In Globalising Delhi

Properties Of Rent: Community, Capital And Politics In Globalising Delhi

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Properties Of Rent: Community, Capital And Politics In Globalising Delhi
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Properties Of Rent: Community, Capital And Politics In Globalising Delhi

Properties Of Rent: Community, Capital And Politics In Globalising Delhi

Author: Sushmita Pati

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781316517277
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We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into the Delhi's urban fray in the 1950s. As these villages transform physically; their residents, an agrarian-pastoralist community - the Jats - also transform into dabblers in real estate. A study of two villages - Munirka and Shahpur Jat - both in the heart of bustling urban economies of Delhi, reveal that it is 'rent' that could define this suburbanisation. 'Bhaichara', once a form of land ownership in colonial times, transforms into an affective claim of belonging, and managing urban property in the face of a steady onslaught from the 'city'. Properties of Rent is a study of how vernacular form of capitalism and its various affects shape up in opposition to both state, finance capital and the city in contemporary urban Delhi.

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