Hyderabad, June 28 -- Two treatises, "Socio-spatial Consequences of Disturbed Areas Act 1991 on Urbanizing Spaces in Gujarat" by Shrivastava and "Saffron geographies of exclusion: The Disturbed Areas Act of Gujarat" by Tejani, both of 2022, examining a phenomenon rooted in 2002, by all counts a very tough year for harmony and national integration, and analysis of the Act itself, read in the context of the Constitution, are a clear red flag for those willing to read between lines.

Table of contentsWhen supervision becomes silent gatekeepingThe geography of exclusion and what flows from itThe architecture of plausible deniability

The two treatises show that the spatial organization of urban India is no longer merely a story of economics o...