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Vasudevan Vandana

Urban villager : life in an Indian satellite town - New Delhi Sage Publications 2013 - 278p ix

Table of contents

Preface
I: WHOSE LAND IS IT ANYWAY?
A New Town is Born
A Mutiny, A Martyr and Some Myths
Farmer, Farmer, Give Me Your Land
The Murky Tales of Noida Extension
Formula 1: Zipping through the Fields
II: THE IMPACT OF ACQUISITION
Poof! The Cash is Gone. Where's My Gun?
The Cost of Building
No Home for the Bristled Grassbird
III: NEW OWNERS OF AN OLD LAND
Isles of Urbania
The Creation of an Education Bazaar
IV: THE SCHIZOPHRENIA OF THE PERI-URBAN TOWN
The Big, Fat Gujjar Wedding
Urban Villager
Art and the City
Greater Noida Heavens
V: GROWTH PANGS OF YOUNG TOWNS
The Complexities of Adolescence
Our Cities, Our Future
Annexures
Bibliography

ISBN: 9788132113096

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. New Towns - Urbanization2. Country Life - Noida - India

Dewey Class. No.: 307.760000 / VAS