I.S.A. Baud and Joop de Wit (eds.), New Forms of Urban Governance in India: Shifts, Models, Networks and Contestations

Edited by the geographer I.S.A. Baud of the University of Amsterdam and the social anthropologist Joop de Wit of the Institute of Social Sciences, The Hague, this book is a welcome addition to the growing interdisciplinary research on large Indian cities. Its ambition is to analyze the major shifts in urban governance since the beginning of the 1990s and to assess to what extent they reflect international models of urban management reform. The book starts with a detailed and well-researched i...