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Structured inequalities in a North Indian city

T’he essential concern of this paper is with the structure and reproduction of social inequalities in Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan State.* Its focus comprises the two major, or mainstream, social classes of the city, the well-to-do middle class and a lower class of urban poor. Major inequalities are much in evidence in this North Indian city. Notably they are marked in the physical separation of, on the one hand, the traditional Inner City, a vast walled location characterised by the immediate propinquity of bazaars and ancient multi-storied dwellings, in which are concentrated the majority of the urban poor, and, on the other, a string of modern suburbs to the west and south of the Inner City, primarily residential locations, well provided with basic services, and in a number of ways exuding middle class affluence. In short, Jaipur’s physical aspect provides a rough guide to some dominant elements of its internally stratified structure. As might be expected of a large, rapidly transforming city, the social order is by no means encompassed by reference to its middle and lower class populations; but this paper is not presented as a fully developed class analysis. I am merely concerned to analyse certain key local-level processes which structure and reproduce central inequalities in the distribution of