: life in an Indian satellite town Vandana Vasudevan creator Vandana Vasudevan text New Delhi : SAGE , 2013 monographic eng

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x,276 Pages ;20 cm. Urban Villageris a superbly etched and finely detailed representation of the life of an 'urban villager' in a modern satellite town of India. It describes how Delhi, as a city, is growing radially, stretching its way into the rural fringes of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh that border the city to form the National Capital Region. Through the microcosm of Greater Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, the author draws a portrait of life in a semi-urban town, where billion dollar homes and villages with no sewage system share the same pin code. Some farmers sell their land and try to cope with a new found pro Part 1. Whose land is it anyway? -- part 2. The impact of acquisition -- part 3. New owners of an old land -- part 4. The schizophrenia of the peri-urban town -- part 5. Growth pangs of young towns. /Vandana Vasudevan Socail Sciences 307.7680 VAS 9788132113096 190719 20190719104629.0