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Tracking Bengaluru's dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals Over the past two decades, Bengaluru's exploding real estate sector and massive infrastructure investments have led to land speculation targeting working-class neighborhoods and agricultural land for development. Chronicles of a Global City turns Bengaluru inside out to examine its world-city transformation that stimulated rapid urbanization and unbounded growth. Moving the spotlight away from the urban elites and new middle class, this book explores how people caught up in the whirlwinds of change in Bengalurufrom construction laborers, street vendors, domestic workers, and platform delivery workers to small-time property brokers, petty landlords, and local politiciansexperience, struggle, aspire, invent, strive, and speculate to make a livable city for themselves. Grounded in long-term ethnographic research and activist experiences, C
