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India's capitalist transformation has been spatially uneven. Combining several analytical approaches, the contributors identify socio-spatial regularities some contiguous with state boundaries, some transcending states and some contained within them - while providing evidence about the spatial unevenness of India's capitalist development. The volume has 9 chapters, each with a unique focus: Introduction: Space and Capitalist Change in Contemporary India; Elisabetta Basile, Barbara Harriss-White and Christine Lutringer 1. Mapping Regions of Agrarian Capitalism in India; Deepak K Mishra and Barbara Harriss-White 2. Mapping Agro-Ecological Zones in India; Kunal Sen and Richard Palmer-Jones 3. Uneven Capitalist Development and Peasant Mobilisations: Perspectives from Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh; Christine Lutringer 4 Regions and Capitalist Transition in India: Arunachal Pradesh in a Comparative Perspective; Deepak K Mishra 5 Mapping the World of Women's Work in India; Saraswati Raju 6. A Spatial Analysis of the Incorporation of Dalits into the Indian Business Economy; Kaushal Kishore Vidyarthee 7. Constructing Spatialised Knowledge on Urban Poverty: (Multiple) Dimensions, Mapping Spaces and Claim-Making in Urban Governance; ISA Baud 8. Reciprocity as Regulation. Exploring Methodologies in Urban Design for the Informal Economy of the Historic Pete, Bengaluru, India; Champaka Rajagopal 9. Mapping the Territories of Luxury: Spatial and Symbolic Reassertions of Inequality in Indian Cities; Isabelle Milbert

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'A refreshing and original contribution to the literature on contemporary India. As promised, it explores the spatial dimensions of capital accumulation. But it does much more. It tells us about diversities of agrarian change; it explores relatively less known geographies of gender, caste, poverty, urban spaces and emerging inequalities.' - Surinder S. Jodhka, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India 'What this collection of essays achieves is nothing short of an intellectual coup. It corrals the agrarian and the urban into the region and breathes life into that historical-geographical theatre of accumulation which hitherto has been obscured by market fundamentalism.' - Anant Maringanti, Hyderabad Urban Lab, India 'A stimulating, innovative and fresh insight into the structural and spatial arrangements of capitalism.' - Aseem Prakash, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, India

'A refreshing and original contribution to the literature on contemporary India. As promised, it explores the spatial dimensions of capital accumulation. But it does much more. It tells us about diversities of agrarian change; it explores relatively less known geographies of gender, caste, poverty, urban spaces and emerging inequalities.' - Surinder S. Jodhka, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India 'What this collection of essays achieves is nothing short of an intellectual coup. It corrals the agrarian and the urban into the region and breathes life into that historical-geographical theatre of accumulation which hitherto has been obscured by market fundamentalism.' - Anant Maringanti, Hyderabad Urban Lab, India 'A stimulating, innovative and fresh insight into the structural and spatial arrangements of capitalism.' - Aseem Prakash, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, India

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Barbara Harriss-White is Professor Emeritus of Development Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. Elisabetta Basile is Professor of Applied Economics at the Sapienza University of Roma, Italy. Christine Lutringer is Senior Researcher and Executive Director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland.

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