Annapurna Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annapurna Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annapurna |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Management Calcutta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia
South Asia's economies, as well as the scholarship on their economic histories, have been transformed in recent decades. This landmark new reference history will guide economists and historians through these transformations in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Part I revisits the colonial period with fresh perspectives and updated scholarship, incorporating recent research on topics such as gender, caste, environment, and entrepreneurship. The cont…
Urban development-induced displacement and quality of life in Kolkata
This paper draws together issues of urban development-induced displacement and resettlement and the quality of life of the affected population over the longer term. It reviews settlement strategies related to the Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project, exploring residents’ recollection of the relocation process and comparing and contrasting the situation over time of two groups of low-income households: those who refused a resettlement package…
Inner-city and Outer-city Neighbourhoods in Kolkata
The central areas of the largest metropolitan cities in India are slowing down. Outer suburbs continue to grow but the inner city consisting of the oldest wards is stagnating and even losing population. This trend needs to be studied carefully as its implications are deep and far-reaching. The objective of this article is to focus on what is happening to the internal structure of the city post liberalization by highlighting the changing dynamics …
Town Planning in Postcolonial India, 1947-1965
The objective of this article is to reassess the new town building movement in India from 1947 to 1965 through a re-examination of the making of Chandigarh, to show how nationalism, modernism, and local regional influences affected the design and building of new towns. Chandigarh emerged as part of the post-Partition need for a new capital for the Punjab, and involved the efforts of several people and levels of government. The context of newly ac…
Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City 1
(2009). Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City1. Urban Geography: Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 809-814
Metropolitan restructuring in post-liberalized India
Planning and Local Economies in Navi Mumbai
The objective of this article is to situate the development of unplanned settlements in the newly planned city of Navi Mumbai (New Bombay) in terms of the increasing contradictions in global interconnectedness experienced by the larger Mumbai (Bombay) metropolitan region. The article distinguishes between a global and a local economy operating in the urban region. Using the governance approach to urban poverty in Third World cities, it highlights…
The Geography of Segmentation of Informal Labor Markets
Although the informal sector has been the subject of enormous academic interest since the mid-1970s, one topic that has received relatively little scholarly attention is the spatial dynamics of informal sector activities and their labor markets. Our study examines the processes giving rise to the spatial segmentation of informal labor markets using a case study of motor vehicle repair workers in two areas of Calcutta. Our findings indicate that l…
The Planning and Development of New Bombay
Since independence (1947), foremost among the issues related to the growth of Bombay has been the decision to build New Bombay, a new city on the mainland across from Bombay island. In this paper, I examine first, the emergence of the idea of New Bombay and the interest groups who influenced the planning process. Secondly, I examine the actual achievements of the New Bombay project and the disjuncture between planning and reality. The New Bombay …
Satellite Town Development in Asia
In the 1960s and 1970s, Asian urban development policies centered on slowing down the rate of urbanization through controlson the growth of the large metropolitan cities. Satellite towns and greenbelts have been among the most widely adopted means to achieve this. However, on the whole, satellite towns have proved to be ineffectual in meeting original objectives, and those towns built to be self-contained have been most successful. Although the o…
Urban growth and land-use conflicts
Until about the 1950s, growth in Indian cities remained largely confined within municipal boundaries. After this period the conversion of agricultural land to urban uses began to occur at a faster rate when rapid population growth necessitated the lateral spread of the city and its incursion into surrounding rural areas. To make land readily available for urban uses, increasingly powerful legislation has been enacted enabling the state to take ov…
Fertility and child spacing among the urban Poor in a Third World city
The Income Security Function of the Rural Sector
Commentary on “A Politics of Failure
The informal sector in a Third World urban economy
An unresolved controversy exists in development literature over the nature and function of the informal sector in urban areas of the Third World. The controversy revolves around the presumed relationship between the modern system of industrial production (often termed the “formal sector”) and that part of the urban economy operating outside it (the “informal sector”). The earlier view that the informal sector is a source of employment which can b…
Metropolitan restructuring in post-liberalized India
Urban development-induced displacement and quality of life in Kolkata
This paper draws together issues of urban development-induced displacement and resettlement and the quality of life of the affected population over the longer term. It reviews settlement strategies related to the Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project, exploring residents’ recollection of the relocation process and comparing and contrasting the situation over time of two groups of low-income households: those who refused a resettlement package…
Town Planning in Postcolonial India, 1947-1965
The objective of this article is to reassess the new town building movement in India from 1947 to 1965 through a re-examination of the making of Chandigarh, to show how nationalism, modernism, and local regional influences affected the design and building of new towns. Chandigarh emerged as part of the post-Partition need for a new capital for the Punjab, and involved the efforts of several people and levels of government. The context of newly ac…
Satellite Town Development in Asia
In the 1960s and 1970s, Asian urban development policies centered on slowing down the rate of urbanization through controlson the growth of the large metropolitan cities. Satellite towns and greenbelts have been among the most widely adopted means to achieve this. However, on the whole, satellite towns have proved to be ineffectual in meeting original objectives, and those towns built to be self-contained have been most successful. Although the o…
The informal sector in a Third World urban economy
An unresolved controversy exists in development literature over the nature and function of the informal sector in urban areas of the Third World. The controversy revolves around the presumed relationship between the modern system of industrial production (often termed the “formal sector”) and that part of the urban economy operating outside it (the “informal sector”). The earlier view that the informal sector is a source of employment which can b…
The Income Security Function of the Rural Sector
Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City 1
(2009). Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City1. Urban Geography: Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 809-814
Planning and Local Economies in Navi Mumbai
The objective of this article is to situate the development of unplanned settlements in the newly planned city of Navi Mumbai (New Bombay) in terms of the increasing contradictions in global interconnectedness experienced by the larger Mumbai (Bombay) metropolitan region. The article distinguishes between a global and a local economy operating in the urban region. Using the governance approach to urban poverty in Third World cities, it highlights…
The Planning and Development of New Bombay
Since independence (1947), foremost among the issues related to the growth of Bombay has been the decision to build New Bombay, a new city on the mainland across from Bombay island. In this paper, I examine first, the emergence of the idea of New Bombay and the interest groups who influenced the planning process. Secondly, I examine the actual achievements of the New Bombay project and the disjuncture between planning and reality. The New Bombay …
Commentary on “A Politics of Failure
The Geography of Segmentation of Informal Labor Markets
Although the informal sector has been the subject of enormous academic interest since the mid-1970s, one topic that has received relatively little scholarly attention is the spatial dynamics of informal sector activities and their labor markets. Our study examines the processes giving rise to the spatial segmentation of informal labor markets using a case study of motor vehicle repair workers in two areas of Calcutta. Our findings indicate that l…
The informal sector in a Third World urban economy
An unresolved controversy exists in development literature over the nature and function of the informal sector in urban areas of the Third World. The controversy revolves around the presumed relationship between the modern system of industrial production (often termed the “formal sector”) and that part of the urban economy operating outside it (the “informal sector”). The earlier view that the informal sector is a source of employment which can b…
Commentary on “A Politics of Failure
Fertility and child spacing among the urban Poor in a Third World city
The Income Security Function of the Rural Sector
Urban growth and land-use conflicts
Until about the 1950s, growth in Indian cities remained largely confined within municipal boundaries. After this period the conversion of agricultural land to urban uses began to occur at a faster rate when rapid population growth necessitated the lateral spread of the city and its incursion into surrounding rural areas. To make land readily available for urban uses, increasingly powerful legislation has been enacted enabling the state to take ov…
Satellite Town Development in Asia
In the 1960s and 1970s, Asian urban development policies centered on slowing down the rate of urbanization through controlson the growth of the large metropolitan cities. Satellite towns and greenbelts have been among the most widely adopted means to achieve this. However, on the whole, satellite towns have proved to be ineffectual in meeting original objectives, and those towns built to be self-contained have been most successful. Although the o…
The Planning and Development of New Bombay
Since independence (1947), foremost among the issues related to the growth of Bombay has been the decision to build New Bombay, a new city on the mainland across from Bombay island. In this paper, I examine first, the emergence of the idea of New Bombay and the interest groups who influenced the planning process. Secondly, I examine the actual achievements of the New Bombay project and the disjuncture between planning and reality. The New Bombay …
The Geography of Segmentation of Informal Labor Markets
Although the informal sector has been the subject of enormous academic interest since the mid-1970s, one topic that has received relatively little scholarly attention is the spatial dynamics of informal sector activities and their labor markets. Our study examines the processes giving rise to the spatial segmentation of informal labor markets using a case study of motor vehicle repair workers in two areas of Calcutta. Our findings indicate that l…
Planning and Local Economies in Navi Mumbai
The objective of this article is to situate the development of unplanned settlements in the newly planned city of Navi Mumbai (New Bombay) in terms of the increasing contradictions in global interconnectedness experienced by the larger Mumbai (Bombay) metropolitan region. The article distinguishes between a global and a local economy operating in the urban region. Using the governance approach to urban poverty in Third World cities, it highlights…
Metropolitan restructuring in post-liberalized India
Town Planning in Postcolonial India, 1947-1965
The objective of this article is to reassess the new town building movement in India from 1947 to 1965 through a re-examination of the making of Chandigarh, to show how nationalism, modernism, and local regional influences affected the design and building of new towns. Chandigarh emerged as part of the post-Partition need for a new capital for the Punjab, and involved the efforts of several people and levels of government. The context of newly ac…
Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City 1
(2009). Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City1. Urban Geography: Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 809-814
Inner-city and Outer-city Neighbourhoods in Kolkata
The central areas of the largest metropolitan cities in India are slowing down. Outer suburbs continue to grow but the inner city consisting of the oldest wards is stagnating and even losing population. This trend needs to be studied carefully as its implications are deep and far-reaching. The objective of this article is to focus on what is happening to the internal structure of the city post liberalization by highlighting the changing dynamics …
Urban development-induced displacement and quality of life in Kolkata
This paper draws together issues of urban development-induced displacement and resettlement and the quality of life of the affected population over the longer term. It reviews settlement strategies related to the Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project, exploring residents’ recollection of the relocation process and comparing and contrasting the situation over time of two groups of low-income households: those who refused a resettlement package…
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia
South Asia's economies, as well as the scholarship on their economic histories, have been transformed in recent decades. This landmark new reference history will guide economists and historians through these transformations in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Part I revisits the colonial period with fresh perspectives and updated scholarship, incorporating recent research on topics such as gender, caste, environment, and entrepreneurship. The cont…
Geography (13 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Demography (5 works)