Contesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics equity and space relating to urban development in modern India. Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets are shaping urban spatial change in India The first volume to bring themes of urban political reform municipal finance land markets and real estate industry together in an international publication