TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pati, Sushmita, 
TI  - Properties of rent : : community, capital and politics in globalising Delhi 
SN  - 9781316517277
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - India--Delhi
KW  - Rental housing
KW  - Urbanization
N2  - "We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into the Delhi's urban fray in the 1950s. As these villages transform physically; their residents, an agrarian-pastoralist community - the Jats - also transform into dabblers in real estate. A study of two villages - Munirka and Shahpur Jat - both in the heart of bustling urban economies of Delhi, reveal that it is 'rent' that could define this suburbanisation. 'Bhaichara', once a form of land ownership in colonial times, transforms into an affective claim of belonging, and managing urban property in the face of a steady onslaught from the 'city'. Properties of Rent is a study of how vernacular form of capitalism and its various affects shape up in opposition to both state, finance capital and the city in contemporary urban Delhi."--
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