Injected Urbanism? Exploring India’s Urbanizing Periphery

Engaging with different literatures in economic geography, postcolonial urbanism, and planetary urbanization, this article seeks to develop a theoretical understanding of remote urban formations taking shape India’s countryside. The analysis draws on extensive primary data collected at two study sites Bihar West Bengal, which rendered an uncommonly rich set for such areas. We observe emergent that result from densification, expansion, amalgamation built-up environments massive shift employment out the agricultural sector. At same time, alternative local opportunities are scarce, giving way significant increases circular labor migration. introduce concept injected urbanism denote form urbanization is exogenously generated through remittances, absence agglomeration processes. infusion remittances drives restructuring emergence consumption economy. Injected spurs development, but its dependence activity elsewhere raises important questions about sustainability.