Conflict and Commensuration: Contested Market Making in India's Private Real Estate Development Sector

Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 65-90

  Searle, Llerena Guiu ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign investors; Indian real estate developers; Market making; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961694129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118295823.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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