Thomas G. Cowan teaches economic geography at the University of Nottingham. His research interests are urban geography, South Asian political economy, labour studies and economic development and growth.

'In Subaltern Frontiers, Tom Cowan skillfully explores agrarian and subaltern processes that continue to remake the shifting geographies India's flagship private city of Gurgaon. Through theoretically-informed, politically-committed, grounded research unafraid to take on real-world and scholarly shibboleths, Cowan shows how subaltern processes, labors, actors, forms of imagination and political struggles continue to animate the urban frontier. This book is a model of excellence in Geography and Urban Studies.' Sharad Chari, University of California at Berkeley

• Dedication; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Translations; Foreword; List of Figures; Introduction: Antinomies of an agrarian city; 1. The experiment; 2. The village in the city; 3. The plot; 4. The bureaucrat and the survey; 5. The tenement; 6. The camp; Conclusion: Urban limits; Index.

Thomas G. Cowan teaches economic geography at the University of Nottingham. His research interests are urban geography, South Asian political economy, labour studies and economic development and growth.

'In Subaltern Frontiers, Tom Cowan skillfully explores agrarian and subaltern processes that continue to remake the shifting geographies India's flagship private city of Gurgaon. Through theoretically-informed, politically-committed, grounded research unafraid to take on real-world and scholarly shibboleths, Cowan shows how subaltern processes, labors, actors, forms of imagination and political struggles continue to animate the urban frontier. This book is a model of excellence in Geography and Urban Studies.' Sharad Chari, University of California at Berkeley

• Dedication; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Translations; Foreword; List of Figures; Introduction: Antinomies of an agrarian city; 1. The experiment; 2. The village in the city; 3. The plot; 4. The bureaucrat and the survey; 5. The tenement; 6. The camp; Conclusion: Urban limits; Index.