Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India (2025)
Book Chapter
Srivastava, S. (2025). Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India. In S. Rau, & J. Rüpke (Eds.), Handbook of Religion and Urbanity. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.13901298

The city of Gurugram, the administrative headquarters of a district of the same name, is located in the state of Haryana. Gurugram adjoins the southern borders of Delhi and has been the site of intense urban development over the past two decades. Rap... Read More about Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India.

Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond (2023)
Digital Artefact
Srivastava, S. Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond. [Audio]

How do different groups of men navigate urban life and enact masculinity in the bustling metropolises of contempory Indian society? In this special 30th episode, marking two years of Now and Men, we speak to Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdh... Read More about Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond.

Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home (2022)
Book
Srivastava, S. (2022). Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009179874

Imagining the city as a series of interconnected spaces, the book explores how several such connections – between the home and the street, family and public spaces, religious and non-religious contexts, for example – relate to the topic of masculinit... Read More about Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home.