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B01 Urban property regimes and citizenship in transition. Changing ownership patterns and systems of relatedness in India

Subproject B01 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The study seeks to harness the explicatory power of property for understanding the shifting societal systems and their underlying normative frameworks in post-liberalised India.(Funding phase 1)

Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024

Project management

Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs
Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs
Fellow / Holder of the Professorship for Indian Religious History (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)
+49 361 737-2882
+49 361 737-2809
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Renzi
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Renzi
Junior Fellow / Inhaberin der Juniorprofessur für Anthropologie und Religion Südasiens (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)
+49 361 737-2884

Team

Sanjay Kumar Jothe

Varun Patil

Prof. em. Dr. Édouard Conte

Research Assistants

Asfia Jamal

Main project

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Rising rates of urbanisation and informalisation of the labour force have turned property regimes in India into contested battlegrounds over livelihoods, resources and space. Differential access to property is interlinked with the appropriation and mobilisation of other resources, including marriage alliances, the extraction of monopoly rent as well as the availability of bank accounts and credit cards.

Thus, property relations not only pertain to capital accumulation, but also to the legitimisation of citizenship and democratic rights defined along intersecting caste, class, religion and gender asymmetries.

Property research India

Cooperation partner

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Universität Oldenburg

TU Darmstadt

FU Berlin

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