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Mumbai’s Development Mafias: Globalization, Organised Crime and Land Development, Weinstein 2008

A study of how the political reforms in India from the early 1990s have reshaped property markets and the politics of land development in Mumbai. It analyses the effects of liberalisation and globalisation on urban development, and examines the structural shifts that facilitated the criminalisation of land development and the implications of mafia involvement in local politics. Tracing the rise and transformation of Mumbai’s major organised crime groups (OCGs) since the 1950s, the article sees their recent entrance into land and property development as a product of the liberalisation policies and globalisation efforts in the India. The author is associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University. She is also the author of ‘The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai’.

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