Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Urban India
The Citizenship, Inequality, and Urban Governance (CIUG) Project is a collaborative project of researchers in India and Brown University.
Urban India
The Citizenship, Inequality, and Urban Governance (CIUG) Project is a collaborative project of researchers in India and Brown University.
About the Project
The Citizenship, Inequality, and Urban Governance (CIUG) Project is a collaborative project of researchers in India and Brown University. The project aims to systematically collect data on urban India, focusing in particular on assessing the quality of basic services and how urban Indian citizens use their civil, political, and social rights in cities.
Reports
- A comprehensive report comparing 14 Indian cities
- Case studies of five cities: Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Kochi, Mumbai, Vadodara
Research Team
Principal Investigators
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Patrick Heller
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs -
Siddharth Swaminathan
Visiting Research Associate -
Ashutosh Varshney
Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Lead Field Researcher
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Tarun Arora
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Placement and Internships, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
Research Assistants
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Bhanu Joshi
Research Affiliate, Saxena Center, PhD in Political Science, Brown University, 2025 -
Aditi Priya
PhD Candidate in Sociology -
Connor Staggs
PhD Canidate in Political Science
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the citizens, elected representatives, and officials who responded to our survey, participated in focus groups, and granted us interviews. The project team takes full responsibility for all the analysis and interpretations of this report.
We thank the Urban Governance Grant of the Saxena Center for funding this project.