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Neha Sami
In an increasingly global India, an agricultural community in Pune, Maharashtra wasfaced with losing farmland to urbanization and devised an unusual solution. Poolingtheir land together, these farmers leveraged their social and political networks to takeadvantage of the changing economic climate in Pune and built a mixed-use township ontheir 400 acres of farmland. They formed alliances with other stakeholders, bothinternally within the agricultural community and externally at the city and state levels.This case study highlights the significance of ad-hoc coalitions in the power and politicsof urban processes in an Indian city. These coalitions have emerged as a result of apolitical power and leadership vacuum in Indian cities in the face of the changing focusand priorities of national and regional governments as well as a growing gap in urbanservice provision
