iPreface & Acknowledgements/iiIntroduction: Modern India and the Claims of the City/ibiIdentities, Interests, Institutions: Politics and Violence in the City:/i/b iLucknow/i (folk song) / P.C. JoshiiThe Tilak Riots/i / S.M. EdwardesiThe 1984 Carnage and its Aftermath/i / Manoj Mitta & H.S. PhoolkaiA Split-level War in Jamshedpur/i / M.J.
AkbariLand to the Killer/i / Shiv VisvanathaniShiv Sena, the City, and Communal Populism/i / Thomas Blom HansenbiThe Social Web of Life in the Metropolis:/i/b iFlute-music/i / Rabindranath TagoreiUrban Frauds/i / Doosa Rajagopala BhoopathyiThe Truth about Dhanya/i / Nissim EzekieliJuthika/i / Premendra MitraiMain Bombai Ka Babu Naam Mera Anjaana/i / Sahir LudhianviiThe Great Big City/i / Premendra MitraiThe Days of the Beloved/i / Harriet Ronken Lynton and Mohini RajaniWinter in Calcutta/i / Amitav GhoshiA Street in Srinagar/i / ChandrakantaiThirst/i / Martha Ann SelbyiSharavana's Services/i / Vivek ShanbhagiParking/i / Ruchir JoshiiA comics workshop with Positive Women Network/i / World Comics IndiaiHe never came again/i / Sunita NishadiIn your name/i / NeelofarbiLiving at the City's Periphery: Dalits, Labourers, Slum-Dwellers, and Outsiders:/i/b iMumbai/i / Narayan SurveiThe Unintended City/i / Jai Seni'Son, Eat your Fill'/i / Daya PawariUnder Dadar Bridge/i / Prakash JadhaviBasanti/i / Bhisham SahniiThe Poor amid an Urban Catastrophe/i / James ManoriDharavi/i / Jeremy SeabrookiPoor Champudi/i / Varsha AdaljaiThe Millworkers of Girangaon, An Oral History/i / Meena Menon and Neera AdarkariSlums as Self-Confrontation/i / Ashis NandyiA Death in Delhi/i / Shankar RamaswamibiMultiple Cities, Many Ethnicities: Claiming and Disowning the City:/i/b iJourneying to Calcutta & English Education in the Metropolis/i / Lal Behari DayiShadows of Night/i / S.M. EdwardesiShree 420/i / Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and V.P. SatheiThe After-Life of the Raj in Indian Academe/i / Ashis NandyiThe Good Parsi/i / Tanya LuhrmanniStranger in a Strange Land/i / Daud HaideriPili Aandhi/i / Prabha KhetaniThe City of the Mind/i / Ashis NandyiMonologue of the City/i / Mangalesh DabraliLower Chitpur Road, Kolkata/i / Garga Chatterjee and Priyanka NandybiArt, Culture and Conviviality in the City:/i/b iThe Music of Hindostan/i / H. Fox StrangwaysiLucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture/i / Abdul Halim SharariLaughter as Subversion in Nineteenth Century Calcutta/i / Sumanta BanerjeeiParsi Theatre in 19th-Century Bombay/i / Kathryn HanseniBahri alang: Benares's ideology of leisure/i / Arvind KalaiThe Town India Forgot/i / Amaresh MisraiThe Chennai Music Season/i / V. SriramiNew wine in the old bottle/i / Timeri N. MuraribiRuins of Cities Past-and Future?:/i/b iDelhi: The Mutiny and its Aftermath/i / Mirza GhalibiThe Song of Those Who Tried to Escape Darkness of the City/i / Chandrashekhar KambariBhopal: A Report from the Future/i / Shiv Visvanathan and Harsh SethiiChandigarh/i / Ravi KaliaiBombing Bombay?/i / M.
V. RamanaiThe Modern Indian City: A Very Short Reader's Guide/iiNotes on Contributors/i.