Center for South Asia Noon Lecture Series

The level of basic public goods and services—access to drinking water, proper sanitation, electricity, paved roads, public safety, and schools—varies widely across and within slums in India. Drawing on variation in the extent and quality of community governance across India’s slums, Adam Auerbach’s research illuminates the mechanisms that impede or facilitate political organization in contexts of ethnic diversity, illegality, and patronage politics.