Social City: Urban Experience and Belonging in Surat

This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from three key axes - communities, neighbourhoods, and market-places - it lays bare the specificities of urban experience coming from a non-megacity landscape of South Asia.

Sadan Jha works on issues related to social and everyday life of cities in South Asia, history of visuality, symbols (Indian national Flag, Spinning Wheel and Bharat Mata), and history of colours. His publications include Reverence, Resistance and the Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag (2016); Devanagari Jagat ki Drishya Sanskriti (2018); Half Set Chay aur Kuchh Youn Hi (2018); Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City, (edited along with Dev Nath Pathak and Amiya Kumar Das, 2021); Leaving and Living: Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration, (edited along with Pushpendra, 2021); Neighbourhoods and neighbourliness in Urban South Asia (edited along with Dev Nath Pathak, 2022), and a number of academic as well as non-academic articles. He is currently Associate Professor at Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India.