Comprehending the gentrification of a suburb: the case of Mulund, Mumbai

Through the Looking Glass: Conceptualising the Theme of Gentrification in Contemporary India

“…Such landscapes tend to occur not just in inner-city areas but also in the peri-urban and the urban-rural transitional zone, and even in the small developing towns. Bhattacharjee’s (2019) work on the suburbs of Mulund and Bandra, Dhingra, Singh, and Chattopadhyay's (2016) work on the historic towns of Rajasthan, and Scrase et al’s (2015) research on Anand in Gujarat and Darjeeling in West Bengal are notable examples.…”

“…The State's prime vision (the construction of a globally competitive India), through its coordination with multi-scalar organisations, such as transnational institutions, private and corporate sector, NGOs, civil society groups and extra-legal associations, facilitated the following interventions: (1) the commodification of city development plans and social welfare schemes; (Banerjee-Guha 2016; Ghertner 2011a; Harris 2008; Pethe et al 2014; Sengupta 2016), (2) privatisation of public sectors entities (e.g., housing, infrastructure and sacred spaces) (Bernt 2016; Birtchnell 2016; Ghertner 2012), (3) industrial restructuring through urban renewal missions (Banerjee-Guha 2013; Chatterjee 2009), (4) city beautification drives (Desai and Loftus 2013; Fernandes 2004; Ghertner 2011b), (5) staging of special priority events like the Commonwealth Games (Brosius and Schilbach 2016; Desai and Loftus 2013; Sengupta 2016), (6)investments in the Mega-city and Smart Cities programmes, transnational real-estate development, massive infrastructure projects and super-liberalised enclaves like special economic zones (Bhattacharjee 2019; Chava, Newman, and Tiwari 2018; Ghertner 2014; Sengupta 2016; Waldman, Silk, and Andrews 2017) and (7) reinvestment in sustainable development plans, green amenities and environmental sustainability projects (Anguelovski and Alier 2014; Doshi 2019).…”

“…Such landscapes tend to occur not just in inner-city areas but also in the peri-urban and the urban-rural transitional zone, and even in the small developing towns. Bhattacharjee's (2019) work on the suburbs of Mulund and Bandra, Dhingra, Singh, and Chattopadhyay's (2016)…”

“…Back in the 1960s, Ruth Glass, a British sociologist, observed a trend of replacement of a conventional workingclass people by a "new gentry" in many post-war London neighbourhoods, which prompted her to coin the term "gentrification" (Bhattacharjee 2019;Chava, Newman, and Tiwari 2018a;Schmid et al 2018). Since the 1980s, theories of gentrification have been influenced by the neo-Marxist urban politico-economic philosophy (Bhagya and Prasad 2018;Ren 2018).…”