Beyond the Metropolis - Regional Globalisation and Town Development in India: An Introduction

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Despite the rapid transformation of India over the past 25 years and a swathe of publications dealing with the impact of globalisation on the culture and economy of the subcontinent, and on its large metropolitan cities, we contend that relatively far less is known about the regional impacts of globalisation and the localised impacts of neo-liberal development policies. Significantly, we seek to understand and analyse how globalisation is transforming smaller, regional towns in India. Based on social scientific research exploring the development and changes taking place in two distinctive, middle towns - Anand, Gujarat and Darjeeling, West Bengal - we highlight the social and political forces at work that are re-making these towns, the local issues residents contend with, and the external drivers of change that influence the unique growth and development of these towns.

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Scrase, T. J., Rutten, M., Ganguly-Scrase, R., & Brown, T. (2015, April 3). Beyond the Metropolis - Regional Globalisation and Town Development in India: An Introduction. South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2015.1031459

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