Given the differentiated nature of India's urbanisation the article attempts to analyse the phenomenon of migration at both ends of the migration spectrum, i.e., a famished, left behind rural countryside, as well as the proliferating range of urban settlements and agglomerations.2 Life cycles and subjective
experiences of migrants suggest that these two are inseparably bound in time in their life histories. The specific degree of importance accorded to each may vary,depending on the particular context of
the existence of migrants to the extent that either one of them may be discernible only as a symbolic presence, intangibly felt. It may be argued that this reinforcing complementarity of ‘rural’ and ‘urban’in the lives of migrants necessitates a perspective more rooted in the realities of an expanding rural–urban continuum.
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The Emerging Underclass of Urban India
By Ajay Dandekar, Rahul Ghai and Poornima Dore
IIC Quarterly, Autumn 2015
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