ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846

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Understanding Poverty and Inequality in Urban India since Reforms

Bringing Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches Together

Having grown considerably in the past two decades, Indian cities have become highly unequal spaces - economically, spatially, socially and culturally. Both quantitative approaches and qualitative methods have been used to study and measure the rising levels of inequality and the extent of poverty of the cities. While both have their problems, this paper claims that notwithstanding their respective limitations, these two approaches have captured different dimensions of the complex Indian urban process, even if they have rarely made an effort to speak to each other. The authors offer their own perspective on how these approaches can learn from each other and move forward.

For their comments on a previous version, we thank an anonymous referee, Anant Maringanti and Ashima Sood.

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