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The fast-consolidating identities along religious and ethnic lines in recent years have considerably 'minoritised' Muslims in India. The wide-ranging essays in this volume focus on the intensified exclusionary practices against Indian Muslims, highlighting how, amidst a politics of violence, confusing policy frameworks on caste and class lines, and institutionalised riot systems, the community has also suffered from the lack of leadership from within. At the same time, Indian Muslims have emerged as a 'mass' around which the politics of 'vote bank', 'appeasement', 'foreigners', 'Pakistanis within the country', and so on are innovated and played upon, making them further apprehensive about asserting their legitimate right to development. The important issues of the double marginalisation of Muslim women and attempts to reform the Muslim Personal Law by some civil society groups is also discussed. Contributed by academics, activists and journalists, the articles discuss issues of integration, exclusion and violence, and attempt to understand categories such as 'identity', 'minority', 'multiculturalism' and 'nationalism' with regard to and in the context of Indian Muslims. This second edition, with a new introduction, will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in sociology, politics, history, cultural studies, minority studies, Islamic studies, policy studies and development studies, as well as policymakers, civil society activists and those in media and journalism

Fast cities in the urban age / Ayona Datta -- Frictionless utopias for the contemporary urban age : large-scale, master-planned redevelopment projects in urbanizing Africa / Martin Murray -- New African city plans : local urban form and the acceleration of urban inequalities / Vanessa Watson -- Speed kills : fast urbanism and endangered sustainability in the Masdar City project / Federico Cugurullo -- Envisioned by the state : entrepreneurial urbanism and the making of Songdo City, South Korea / Hyun Shin -- From petro-urbanism to knowledge megaprojects in the Persian Gulf : Qatar Foundation's Education City / Agatino Rizzo -- "Their houses on our land" : perforations and blockades in the planning of New Town Rajarhat, India / Ratoola Kundu -- Mega-suburbanization in Jakarta mega-urban region / Delik Hudalah and Tommy Firman -- Mega-scale sustainability : the relational production of a new Lusaka / Mathew Lane -- Planning new towns in the People's Republic : Political dimensions of eco-city images in China / Braulio Morera -- Slow : towards a decelerated urbanism / Abdul Shaban and Ayona Datta

The global south is entering an 'Urban Age' where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing - rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion, severe fuel shortages, and the breakdown of law and order. We are told that we must be prepared. The solution is simple they say. Mega-urbanization is an opportunity for economic growth and prosperity. Therefore we must build big, build new and build fast. 0With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, 'Mega-Urbanization in the Global South' is the first to use the lens of speed to examine the postcolonial "urban revolution". From the mega-urbanization of Lusaka, to the production of satellite cities in Jakarta, to new cities built from scratch in Masdar, Songdo and Rajarhat, this book argues that speed is now the persistent feature of a range of utopian visions that seek to expedite the production of new cities. These 'fast cities' are the enduring images of postcolonial urbanism, which bypass actually existing urbanisms through new power-knowledge coalitions of producing, knowing and governing the city. This timely and original book presents urban scholars with the theoretical, empirical and methodological challenges of mega-urbanization in the global south, as well as highlighting new theoretical agendas and empirical analyses that these new forms of city-making bring to the fore

AbstractThe interaction of cultural diversity and human capital and their combined and conditional impacts on regional economic growth have not been explored in depth. The present study shows that India's cultural diversity and human capital have significant impacts on regional economic growth, but the impact of cultural diversity declines with an increase in human capital stock and level of initial regional incomes. These findings are akin to the findings of other studies reporting varying impacts of human capital on economic growth with differing levels of economic development. This implies that the less developed regions, being farther from the technological frontier (Vandenbussche et al., 2006), display a stronger diversity‐led catch‐up effect.

As digitalization meets local traditions, there is great potential for creative industries (CI) to promote economic and social development in middle- and low-income countries. This book explores the economic and cultural relevance of these industries in India. The book identifies key topics regarding cultural and creative industries in India, which has a rich cultural heritage and a young demographic and is undergoing swift socio-economic change. It contains the most sophisticated and comprehensive mappings of CI in India to date. It also features numerous case studies, which illuminate the growth of CI in India, its intersections with caste and gender, the central role of handloom, handicraft, and other local practices within communities, as well as the specific challenges in safeguarding and harnessing various creative industry assets to promote sustainable development and social change. Rich with empirical data, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, economics, history, social work, development studies, media studies, and South Asian studies.

Introduction -- Challenges of Muslims in Contemporary India -- Demographic Profile of Muslims -- Economic Status of Muslims -- Conditions of Muslims: Findings of a Primary Survey -- Occupational Opportunities in Muslim Neighbourhoods of Hyderabad City -- Educational Condition of Muslims -- Health and Nutrition: Malnutrition and Anaemia -- Health and Nutritional Status: The Context of Muslims -- Migration and Impact of Remittances on Health. .