New Delhi, 150, 165–74
architecture of, 167–68
British decision to build, 165–67
building contractors as new aristocracy of, 168–72
New York, 41, 434–37
New York Times, 58–59, 93
9/11 terrorist attacks, 41
Nithari murders, 277–86
Nizamuddin Auliya, 157–58
Noida, 273, 277
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 94
Oberoi, Colonel (fictitious name), 179–85
Okhla, 273
oligarchy. See elites/aristocracy
online marriage agencies, 119–20
organ stealing, 279–81
ownership, of resources, 41
Paco Rabanne, 86
Pakistan, 186–88, 313, 316
Pandher, Moninder Singh, 278–85
Paris, 435
Partition of 1947, 3, 29–30, 186–208, 335, 445
Colonel Oberoi (fictitious name) interviews, 181–82, 184–85
emasculation of men and, 200–206
refugees, 192–95
violence accompanying, 189–91, 194
women, abduction and return of, 200–202
Peacock throne, 151
politics/politicians, 305–6, 345–53
business-politician partnerships, 347–53
personal wealth of, 346–47
privatization and, 345–46
poor and working classes, 236–86
agricultural economics and, 260–62, 271
average annual salary of, 258
bargaining power of, lack of, 266–67
in Bhalswa Colony, 236–52
centralised authority, relation to, 436
as cheap labour source, 262–68
as construction workers, 265–66, 276
as factory workers, 265–66, 271
housing, lack of, 273–74
Nithari murders and, 277–86
rural land seizures and, 259–60
safety net for rural communities, 271
as servants, 262–65
slum and squatter settlements, growth and demolition of, 274–76, 330
street dwellers, 21–22
transfer of wealth and resources from, in globalization of 2000s, 37–38
urban protests, 272
vasectomy program and, 330–31
Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (Naoroji), 51
Pratap (fictitious name), 295–98
private townships, 3–4
privatization of basic resources, 345–46
privilege, 20–21
property market. See real estate business
public administration, 345–47
Puneet (fictitious name), 381–96
Punjabi (language), 174, 176
qawwali, 158, 206–8
Quatrro, 60, 67–68
Qutab Minar, 4
Rakesh (fictitious name), 6–16
Rama, 196–99, 200
Ramayana, 197
Ramesh (fictitious name), 79–80
Ranjit (fictitious name), 294, 299–304
rape
in Delhi, 43–44, 138–40, 142–48
during Partition, 189, 190
Ravanna, 196, 197–98
real estate business, 362–73
Baljeet (fictitious name) interviews, 288–91, 302–3
black money and, 325
of Chopra, 353–61, 365, 366, 370–73
Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and, 72, 288–89, 362
imperialist expansion in Africa and central Asia, 367–68
price increases in Delhi properties, in late 2000s, 404–5
of Singh, K.P., 362–66
warrior ethos and, 366–67
Reebok, 85
Renuka lake, 430
reputation, 210–12
resettlement, of working people, 237–39
rich. See elites/aristocracy
Right to Information Act, 271
Rig Veda, 440
road deaths, 21
roads and thoroughfares, 17–27
bicycle travel and, 21
car travel and, 17–21
construction of, 22–24
driving and, 17–21
foot travel and, 21
as home, 21–22
road deaths, 21
traffic lights and, 25
Roberts, Emma, 151–53, 154, 195
Roy, Arundhati, 42
Roy, Raman, 60–62, 64–69, 351–52
at American Express, 61–62
at GECIS, 64–67
Quattro founded by, 67–68
Spectramind founded by, 67
rupee, devaluation of, 315
Russia, 316, 353, 445
Nehru visit to, 51–52
safety net for rural communities, 271
Sahara holdings, 370
Salwa Judum, 260
Saraswati (fictitious name), 240, 242–44
Scorsese, Martin, 434
servants, 262–65
sewage system, 430–31, 441–42
sexual crimes
in Delhi, 43–44, 138–40, 142–48
during Partition, 189, 190
Shah Jahan, 150, 151
Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi), 150, 151–53, 155, 167–68
Shama, 159
Sharma, Manu, 204
Shastri, Lal Bahadur, 313
Shibani (fictitious name), 99–110
shopping malls, 95, 117–18
Siddhartha (fictitious name), 69–76
Sikhs, 29, 157, 188–89, 192, 194–95, 201–2, 332–38, 340
anti-Sikh violence following Gandhi’s assassination, 334–38, 339–42
Bhindranwale-led uprising and Ghandi response, 332–34
Jaswant (fictitious name) interviews, 338–43
Simran (fictitious name), 227–34
Singh, Kushal Pal, 362–66
Singh, Manmohan, 49, 50, 57–59, 260, 374
Singh, Ranjit, 169–71
Sita, 197–98
slums
Bhalswa Colony, 236–52
demolitions of, 274–76, 330
growth of, 274
South Africa, 367
Soviet Union. See Russia
Spectramind, 67
spiritualism
advisers/gurus, 380–81
middle classes, spiritual impacts of global capitalism on, 95–96
Puneet (fictitious name) interviews, 381–96
Western societies reconciliation of spiritual problems with money and property, 379
women’s historical spiritual purity, 140–41
Stalin, Joseph, 445
sterilisation (male vasectomy program), 330–31
street dwellers, 21–22
Sufism, 157–58, 159
Sukhvinder (fictitious name), 116–32
Sultanate, Delhi, 397
Suzuki, 10–11, 12–13, 362
Swatantra Party, 315
Syndicate, 314, 315–16
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 54
tax services, 320–21
Tehelka, 204
Time, 94
trading families, 8–9, 63
traffic lights, 25
travel business, 302
United States, 316, 353
business process outsourcing (BPO) and, 61–67
food imports from, 313
Indo-U.S. partnership, 93–95
urban protests, 272
urban violence, 43–44
Urdu, 153, 156, 159–60, 160, 174, 176–77
Uttar Pradesh, 258
Vajpayee, Bihari, 329
vasectomy program, 330–31
violence
anti-Sikh violence following Gandhi’s assassination, 334–38, 339–42
hyper-aggressive masculinity and, in Delhi, 202–6
during Partition, 189–91, 194
sexual (See sexual crimes)
urban, and globalisation, 43–44
Vishnu, 196, 199
Walgreens, 67
walking, 17–18
warrior ethos, of business people, 212–13, 224–27, 366–67
Washington Consensus, 50
water, 260–61
Delhi water system, 426–33
groundwater, 5–6, 425–26, 428, 431–32
illegal wells, 180, 431
Iltutmish’s construction of wells and tanks, 5
tanker deliveries of, 24–25, 432
water parks, 432
water tanks, 5, 426, 431–33
wells
illegal of middle-class homes, 180, 431
Iltutmish’s construction of, 5