Foreword: From Spatial Experience to Experienced Space: Representations, Recollections and Reproductions of the Urban Spaces in Indian LiteratureMustafa Zeki ÇirakliIntroduction: Writing Cities: Appropriating the Urban in Indian LiteraturesSubashish Bhattacharjee and Goutam KarmakarPart 1: Fictions of the ‘Cities at the Centre’1. City’s Deity: Exploring the Urban and Sacred Space in Anita Desai’s Voices and the City and Journey to IthacaDeeptangshu Das2. Khushwant Singh’s Delhi: A Multi-Layered Projection of an Anthropomorphised CitySarani Ghosal Mondal3. Diasporic Return to Calcutta in Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter and Days and Nights in CalcuttaRima Bhattacharya4. Stories by the Sea: Memories and Space in Amit Chaudhuri’s Friend of My YouthSayan Aich Bhowmik5. ‘…not exactly fear, but unease, an apprehension’: flânerie and the tactics of survival in Baumgartner’s BombayRupayan Mukherjee6. Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis: The Networked CityAmrutha Kunapalli7. At Home in City (?): Reading the Destabilising New City in Raj Kamal Jha’s She Will Build Him a CityKuheli Singha8. The Radical, the Bourgeois and the Alienated in the City in Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of OthersNilanjan Chakraborty9. Discovering New Cities and Their Underbellies within the Old: Seeing the Periphery of Kolkata through the Lens of Kunal Basu’s KalkattaAvijit Das and Shri Krishan Rai10. Palimpsestic Jungle/Jumble: Visceral Urbanism in Rajat Chaudhuri’s Hotel CalcuttaSubhadeep Paul11. Mumbai Queered: Perils and Pleasures of the Sexual Metropolis in Murder in MahimSomdatta Bhattacharya12. ‘Botanising on the Asphalt’: Towards an alternate cityscape of Delhi and its urbane citizenry in Ravish Kumar’s Ishq Mein Shahar HonaRajarshi RoyPart 2: Fictions from the Fringes13. Rohinton Mistry’s city by the sea: a place to call home?Natacha Lasorak14. Urban Spaces and Fading Culture in Mamang Dai’s Fictions: A Postmodern Reading of City LifeDebajyoti Biswas15. Evolution of Heterotopic Space: Unearthing the Toxic Cityscape in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s PeopleSomasree Sarkar and Neha Kumari16. Cosmopolitanism and Trade Relations: Analysing the port city of Muziris through Sethumadhavan’s The Saga of MuzirisMaya Vinai and Revathy HemachandranPart 3: Staging the City17. ‘Cities Imprison and Kill the Blood’: Exploring the Politics of the Representation of the Country and the City in Rabindranath Tagore’s Red OleandersArnab Chatterjee18. Girish Karnad’s Consideration of ‘Urban Spaces’ for His PlaysJolly Das19. A Tale of Two Cities: Showcasing the Façade of the Indian Metropolis in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out and HarvestPraggnaparamita Biswas20. City, Space & Spectacle: Parsi Theatre’s Indar SabhaSib Sankar MajumdarPart 4: Poetics of the Cities21. Imagery of Revolt and Withdrawal: The City-Country Interface in the Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla and Adil JussawallaBaisali Hui22. ‘How can she feel at home in so many places?’: City, home, and diasporic subjectivity in Sujata Bhatt’s poetryJoyjit Ghosh23. When a City Speaks: Tracing the voices and visions of Mumbai in Gopal Lahiri and Sunil Sharma’s Cities: Two PerspectivesGoutam KarmakarPart 5: The City in Itself24. Liberating the Cursed City: Looking through Jiddu Krishnamurti and Sisirkumar GhoseGoutam Ghosal25. Journey from Alienation to Integration: Travel, Urban Space, and Chronotope in Bharati Mukherjee’s Days and Nights in CalcuttaBasundhara Chakraborty26. Psychogeographies: Urban Space and Situationism in Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and FoundUjjwal Kr. Panda