Quid Pro Quo? : Relation between Real Estate Developers and 'Local Men' in Kolkata
Drawing on the fieldwork conducted in Kolkata, the city’s changing property relations among middle classes are studied sociologically. Since the late 2000s, several pockets of wetlands have been converted into urban land suitable for real estate constructions, sometimes even in violation of the Ramsar Convention. Journalists have reported at length on how land mafias and