Urs, Kshithij.

Resisting reform? : the struggle for water in world-class Bangalore / Kshithij Urs and Richard Whittell. - New Delhi : Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2009. - ix, 169 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-169).

"Reform" for sale : the privatisation of water supply -- Neutering democracy : "world-class" visions -- Privatisation : the global hydra -- Insidious institutions : "reform" stakeholders in Bangalore -- Misplaced compassion : an illusory participatory democracy -- Emerging resistances : people fight back -- Epilogue: recovering equitable reforms.

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Water-supply--India--Bangalore.
Privatization--India--Bangalore.

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