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STORIES OF SETTLEMENT

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Delhi neighbourhoods today are sites of tremendous cultural diversity. “Culture” of this city cannot therefore be associated with a single or even a number of communities or practices. Culture comprises human stories, visual and literary representations, culinary traditions, community hangouts, distinguishing landmarks not necessarily historical/ monumental of a given space. It is forever in the making, and every neighbourhood has a culture of its own. As city-zens settle down in places, they both borrow from its home-making potential as well as add to its place-making possibilities.. This page reports findings of a cultural mapping project carried out in 2 Delhi neighbourhoods (Kondli and Trilok Puri Delhi Legislative Assembly Constituencies) across 10 families of different livelihoods, nativity, gender and caste identities, traumatic as well as empowering experiences and environmental/ heritage consciousness. The stories on this will go beyond canonical culture to underscore the rich diversity of urban cultural processes. The stories also demonstrate how micro-mapping has the required potential to replace abstractions about a city’s culture with lived realities and reduce alienation in city dwellers by relocating them at the centre of the cultural discourse.

A major research project sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)

Dr. Niraj Kumar Singh
Project Director

Prof. Sangeeta Mittal
Co-Project Director

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