Dystopia’s Ghost

Nationalist Urbanisms on the National Peripheries

“…Indira Gandhi’s push to stage India as a developing nation rather than one beset by poverty led her to stage and develop infrastructure for events such as the International Trade Fair in 1972 and Asian Games in 1982 (Stierli, 2021). Similarly, the present regime’s Central Vista Redevelopment Project 1 or the demolition of the Hall of Nations 2 for Pragati Maidan Redevelopment Project were widely perceived as signalling ideological shift in the official national imaginary (Dharwadker, 2022; Sharma, 2020).…”