Desai, RenuSanghvi, Shachi2017-10-132017-10-132017-02Desai, R. & Sanghvi, S. (2017). Water and conflict in Bombay Hotel, Ahmedabad : urban planning, governance and infrastructural violence. Economic & Political Weekly, 52(7)2349-8846http://hdl.handle.net/10625/56678Abstract onlyThe causes, conditions and consequences of poor water access in Bombay Hotel locality, a predominantly Muslim informal settlement located in Ahmedabad’s southern periphery, are studied through the lens of urban violence and conflict. This is done by tracing the dynamics of urban planning and governance that have produced two interlinked types of infrastructural violence in the locality—municipal water denial and violent articulations of infrastructure by informal water providers—and the experiences of everyday conflict and violence that emerge in residents’ lives as a consequence. How conflicts and violence shape residents’ attempts to negotiate and attain better water access are also discussed.enURBAN PLANNINGGOVERNANCEINFRASTRUCTUREWATER ACCESSWATER PROVIDERSURBAN VIOLENCEINDIAJournal Article (peer-reviewed)