Hill settlements : deprivations as conflict and conflicts due to deprivations
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2015
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Centre for Urban Equity (CUE), CEPT University, Ahmedabad, IN
Abstract
Hill dwellers were found to be suffering from multiple deprivations, which made them bitter towards the state government, and caused conflicts among themselves. Guwahati is a city of wetlands and hills, bound on the north by the Brahmaputra River and in the south by the Khasi-Garo hills. As a result, geographical constraints apply to availability of land for the city to expand naturally. The hills on the city’s periphery have housed largely low-income households who have moved there to find land to construct ownership housing. Deprivation, by definition, is structural violence. Water shortages result in extreme hardship for women.
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Assamese version available in IDRC Digital Library
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SAFE AND INCLUSIVE CITIES