Governing India's metropolises / editors, Joël Ruet, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal.

Based on case studies of four Indian metropolises, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, and Hyderabad.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Engaging with the Concept of Governance in the Study of Indian Metropolises / Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal -- Comparative Overview of Urban Governance in Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai / Archana Ghosh ... [and others] -- New Patterns of Participation Shaping Urban Governance / Loraine Kennedy -- Class in Metropolitan India: The Rise of the Middle Classes / Jos Mooij and Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal -- Vertical Governance: Brokerage, Patronage and Corruption in Indian Metropolises / Girish Kumar ... [and others] -- Primary Education in Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata: Governance by Resignation, Privatisation by Default / Jos Mooij and Jennifer Jalal -- Assessing Urban Governance through the Prism of Healthcare Services in Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai / Loraine Kennedy, Ravi Duggal and Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal -- From Polarisation to Urban De-integration: Water and Sanitation in Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad / Joel Ruet, Keshab Das, Agnes Huchon and Guillaume Tricot -- Participatory Urban Governance and Slum Development in Hyderabad and Kolkata / Archana Ghosh -- Reforming Solid Waste Management in Mumbai and Hyderabad: Policy Convergence, Distinctive Processes / Marie-Helene Zerah -- Thinking the Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai Experience: Emerging Modes of Urban Governance and State Intervention / Joel Ruet.

This book is a comparative, sector-based study of the changing character of governance in Indian metropolises in the 2000s. Highlighting the horizontal and vertical ties of the participatory groups, both state and non-state, it looks at key civic issues.