Remaking Cities: Urban Reforms in Ahmedabad and Kanpur, India

This book presents a systematic analysis of the differential implementation of the urban reforms in two Indian cities, Ahmedabad and Kanpur. It analyses the enactment of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), launched in 2005 by the Indian government.

Praveen Priyadarshi is Assistant Professor of Politics at IIIT, Delhi. He is interested in urban politics, democracy and governance. He brings the categories of space, institutions and policies to bear upon the conceptualisation of everyday politics in the cities of the global South. A PhD in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, he has been an associate at the Crisis States Research Centre, LSE and the Developing Countries Research Centre (DCRC), University of Delhi. He was also the Tata PhD Fellow at the Asia Research Centre (ARC), LSE.