Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Tables, Figures, and Maps XI
4. Preface XV
5. Part One: THE SETTING
6. 1. The City in Indian Politics 3
7. 2. Urban Ecology and Developmental Pattern 22
8. Part Two: THE CITY ARENA
9. 3. The Princely Heritage: Social Bases of Political and Administrative Prominence 49
10. 4. Congress Factions in Indore: Origins and Election Outcomes 70
11. 5. Indore's Changing Authority Structure: Vertical Linkages and Integration 97
12. Part Three: THE MUNICIPAL ARENA
13. 6. State Penetration of the Municipal Arena 133
14. 7. The Municipal Process: Party and Factional Competition and Outcomes 147
15. 8. The Politics of the Water Crisis: Jurisdictional Conflict 211
16. Part Four: POLITICAL ARENAS IN THE CITY
17. 9. The Politics of Town Planning: Bureaucratic Agency Competition 229
18. 10. The Labor Arena in City Politics: Workers, Machine Politics, and the Struggle for Power 263
19. 11. Other Political Arenas: The Fragmentation of Urban Politics 330
20. 12. Area, Power, and Policy in a Penetrated System 347
21. Appendix A 381
22. Appendix B 387
23. Bibliography 391
24. Index 407