Gautam Bhan

Associate Dean – School of Human Development
Head - Human Development | gautam dot bhan at iihs dot co dot in

EDUCATION:
2012 PhD, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America
2006 MA, Urban Sociology, University of Chicago, United States of America
2002 BA, Political Economy and Development, Amherst College, Amherst, United States of America

Countries: India, South Africa, Kenya, Sierra Leone, UK, USA
States: Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Rajasthan
Cities: Delhi, Ranchi, Bangalore, Jaipur, Indore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Ahmedabad
Languages: English, Hindi, Kashmiri

Gautam Bhan is an urbanist whose work focuses on urban poverty, inequality, social protection and housing. He is currently Associate Dean, IIHS School of Human Development, as well as Senior Lead, Academics & Research, at IIHS.

Gautam’s previous research has focused on evictions, citizenship and inequality in Delhi, and at IIHS, he continues to work on questions of access to affordable and adequate housing. He anchors IIHS’ role as a National Resource Centre with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India. He is also a part of IIHS’ work in affordable housing policy and practice, having worked with housing rights movements across the country as well as state governments in Karnataka, Delhi, Rajasthan and Odisha. His new work engages with regimes of urban welfare and social security, including work on urban health. At the School of Human Development, he is building research and practice on questions of the design and delivery of social protection entitlements within urban India. He also has a deep and abiding interest in new urban and planning theory from the South.

He is the author of In the Public’s Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi (University of Georgia Press, 2017; Orient BlackSwan, 2017), co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South (Routledge, 2018; Orient BlackSwan, 2019), co-author of Swept off the Map: Surviving Eviction and Resettlement in Delhi (Yoda Press, 2008), and co-editor of Because I have a Voice: Queer Politics in India (Yoda Press, 2006), in addition to numerous academic articles. He also writes frequently in public intellectual spaces. He holds a PhD in urban studies and planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

Teaching

Capacity Building Sessions on Urbanisation in India (LBSNAA), Housing, Livelihoods, Planning, Urban Inequality,Urban Practitioners’ Programme (UPP), IIHS

Training

Identity and Social Practice, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
Urban Economy, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
Affordable Housing: Policy and Practice, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
Ethnographic Methods, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
Southern Urban Theory, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
Urban Health Systems Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
Urban Social Protection, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
Practica Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
Housing Justice: A View from India, Digital Blended Learning (DBL) course, IIHS
Sustainable Cities, Digital Blended Learning (DBL) course, IIHS and UN-SDSN

Journal Articles

Bhan, G. (2024). Mapping as a collective and southern practice. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, e12705. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12705
Bhan, G., Anand, S., Nagpal, S., & Khandelwal, V. (2024). Reimagining Urban Employment Programmes. Economic and political weekly, 59(22). https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/22/commentary/reimagining-urban-employment-programmes.html
Sohane, N., & Bhan, G. (2023). Thinking spatially about home-based work and workhomes. Built Environment, 49(3), 355-369.
Bhan, G. (2023). Operationalising social protection: Reflections from urban India. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231186077
Bhan, G., Chakraborty, H., & Parushya. (2022). Spatialising urban vulnerability perspectives from covid-19 food relief in Delhi. Economic and Political Weekly, 57(29), 7–8.
Sampat, K., Chowdhury, A. R., & Bhan, G. (2022). Recovery as resilience: Domestic work and workers in the aftermath of COVID-19. Review of Urban Affairs, 57(5), 34-39.
Chowdhury, A. R., Surie, A., & Bhan, G. (2021). Breastfeeding knowledge and practices of working mothers in the informal economy in New Delhi: A formative study to explore new intervention pathways towards improved maternal and child health outcomes. Social Science & Medicine, 281. Article 114070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114070
Bhan, G., Surie, A., Horwood, C., Dobson, R., Alfers, L., Portela, A., & Rollins, N. (2020). Informal work and maternal and child health: A blind spot in public health and research. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 219-221. http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.19.231258
Bhan, G. (2019). Notes on a Southern urban practice. Environment & Urbanization, 31(2), 639-654.
Goswami A. & Bhan G., (2017). Land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement. Yojana, 61, 15-18.
Bhan, G. (2017). Where is Citizenship? : Thoughts from the Basti. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 37(3). https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4279176
Bhan, G. (2017). From the basti to the “house”: Socio-spatial readings of housing policy in India. Current Sociology, 65(4), 587-602.
Bhan, G., & Jana, A. (2015). Reading spatial inequality in urban India. Economic & Political Weekly, 50(22), 49-54.
Bhan, G. (2014). Categorizing hierarchies. Seminar, 663, 18-22.
Bhan, G. (2014). Continuity amidst change: Learning from Rajiv Awas Yojana. Yojana, 58, 64-67.
Bhan, G. (2014). Moving from ‘giving back’ to engagement. Journal of Research Practice, 10(2), N14. Retrieved from http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/406/370
Bhan, G. (2014). The impoverishment of poverty: Reflections on urban citizenship and inequality in contemporary Delhi. Environment & Urbanization, 26(2), 547-560.
Bhan, G. (2014). The real lives of urban fantasies. Environment & Urbanization, 26(1), 232-235.
Bhan, G., & Shivanand, S. (2013). (Un) settling the city: Analysing displacement in Delhi 1990 to 2007. Economic & Political Weekly, 48(13), 54-61.
Bhan, G. (2013). Planned illegalities: Housing and the ‘failure’ of planning in Delhi 1947-2010. Economic & Political Weekly, 48(24), 58-70.
Jana, A., & Bhan, G. (2013). Of slums or poverty: Notes of caution from Census 2011. Economic and Political Weekly, 48(18), 13-16.
Bhan, G. (2013). Liberal education: The road not taken. Economic & Political Weekly, 48(21). Retrieved from http://www.epw.in/journal/2013/21/debating-du-web-exclusives/liberal-education-road-not-taken.html
Bhan, G. (2009). “This is no longer the city I once knew”. Evictions, the urban poor and the right to the city in millennial Delhi. Environment & Urbanization, 21(1), 127-142.
Bhan, G., Bhandari, N., Taneja, S., Mazumder, S., and Bahl, R. (2005). The Effect of maternal education on gender bias in care-seeking for common childhood Illnesses. Social Science and Medicine, 60 (4), 715-724.

Books & Book Chapters

Bhan, G., Keith, M., Parnell, S., & Pieterse, E. (2025). Cities Rethought: A New Urban Disposition. Polity.
Surie, A., Goswami, A., Arakali, A., Revi, A., Ravindranath, D., Bhan, G., Anand, G., Balakrishnan, K., Kapoor, N., Sami, N., Vasanth, P., Anand, S., Smitha, M. B., Viswanath, S., Baberwal, S., Sudeshna Mitra, S., Batikar, T., & John, V. (2023). Towards a new urban practice: The urban fellows programme 2016-2022. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/9788195847303
Bhan, G. (2022). The vulnerable foundations of India’s urbanism. In J. S. Thomas & Z. Caitlin (Eds.), The long year: A 2020 reader. Columbia University Press.
Bhan, G. (2020). Informality, housing and work: The view from Indian cities. In M. Chen, & F. Carré (Eds.), The informal economy revisited: Examining the past, envisioning the future. (pp. 136-139). Routledge.
Bhan, G., Chandola, T., Sampat, K., & Sohane, N. (2019). Building a home. Building a life: Incrementality and investment in resettlement colony. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/bcss.2019
Bhan, G., (2018). Housing common sense and urban policy in India. In A. Bhide & H. Burte (Eds.), Urban parallax: Policy and the city in contemporary India (pp. 114-124). New Delhi: Yoda Press.
Sassen, S., Pieterse, E., Bhan, G., Hirsh, M., Falu, A., Ichikawa, H …, Tarchopulos, D. (2018). Cities and Social Progress. In International Panel on Social Progress (Ed.), Rethinking society for the 21st century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress (Vol. 1. Socio-economic Transformations) (pp. 187-224). Cambridge, UK.: Cambridge University Press.
Bhan, G., Srinivas, S., & Watson, V. (2018). Introduction. In G. Bhan, S. Srinivas, & V. Watson, (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South (pp 1-22). New York: Routledge.
Bhan, G., Goswami, A., & Revi, A. (2018). The intent to reside: Residence in the auto-constructed city, In G. Bhan, S. Srinivas, & V. Watson, (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South (pp 255-263). New York: Routledge.
Bhan, G, Watson, V & Srinivas, S. (Eds), (2018). Routledge companion to planning in the Global South. New York: Routledge and New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
Bhan, G. (2017). The (In)dignity of our sexualities. In N. Razdan. (Ed.), Left, right and centre: The idea of India (pp. 59-76). Gurgaon, Haryana: Penguin Viking.
Bhan, G., & Deb, A. (2017). Indispensable yet inaccessible: The paradoxes of adequate housing in urban India. In K. Kannabiran & A. Hans (Eds.), India social development report 2016: Disability rights perspectives (pp.229-238). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Bhan, G., Deb, A., & Harish, S. (2016). Understanding inadequacy: The view from urban India. In Urban policy dialogues: Operationalising SDGs. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/updsdg2016_3
Bhan, G (2016). In the public’s interest: Evictions, citizenship and inequality in contemporary Delhi. Delhi: Orient Blackswan and Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Jana, A., Malladi, T., Anand, G., Anand, S., Bazaz, A., Bhan, G. … Shah, S. (2015). In A. Revi (Ed.), Urban India 2015: Evidence. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/urbindia.2015
Jana, A., Malladi, T., Anand, G., Bhan, G., Harish, S., Raju, M. J. S., & Rao, P. (2015). Housing. In A. Revi (Ed.), Urban India 2015: Evidence. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Jana, A., Malladi, T., Anand, S., Bhan, G., Koduganti, J., Raju, M. J. S., & Rao, P. (2015). Poverty, inequality and exclusion. In A. Revi (Ed.), Urban India 2015: Evidence. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Bhan, G., Goswami, A., & Revi, A. (2014). The intent to reside: Spatial illegality, inclusive planning and urban social security. In O. P. Mathur (Ed.), Inclusive urban planning: State of the urban poor report 2013 (pp. 83-94). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Bhan, G., Anand, G., Arakali, A., Deb, A., & Harish, S. (2014). Urban housing and exclusion. In India Exclusion Report 2014 (pp. 77-107). Bangalore: Books for Change.
Bhan, G. (2013). Urban political mobilization. In B. Stryker, O. Nagati & M. Mostafa (Eds.), Learning from Cairo (pp. 12-15). Cairo, Egypt: CLUSTER/American University of Cairo.
Bhan, G., & Menon-Sen, K. (2008). Swept off the map: Surviving eviction and resettlement in New Delhi (Yoda Press: New Delhi). Translated Edition (2009) Nakshe se Bahar: Dilli main Visthapan ke Baad Zindagi. Delhi: Yoda Press.
Bhan, G., & Panda, P. (2010). Revisiting India’s population policies. In A.K.S. Kumar, P. Panda & R. R. Ved (Eds.), Handbook of population and development (pp. 57-71). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Bhan, G (2005) Challenging the limits of the Law, In A. Narrain & G. Bhan (eds.), Because i have a voice: Queer politics in India. Yoda Press: Delhi. 715-724.
Bhan, G & Narrain, A (2005). Because i have a voice: Queer politics in India. New Delhi: Yoda Press.

Other Writings

Tripathy, P., Balakrishnan, K., Malladi, T., Kiran, A., & Bhan, G. (2022). Methods for spatial sampling of urban neighbourhoods by socio-economic status in Indian cities. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—asia/—ro-bangkok/—sro-new_delhi/documents/publication/wcms_864760.pdf
Anand, S., Bhan, G., Khandelwal, V., & Nagpal, S (2023). Urban employment programmes (Policy Brief). Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/UEP11.2023
Anand, S., Bhan, G., & Fooks, L. (2023). Influencing the social protection agenda in Rajasthan to support urban informal workers. PEAK Urban. https://www.peak-urban.org/publications/influencing-social-protection-agenda-rajasthan-support-urban-informal-workers
Bazaz, A., Arakali, A., Revi, A., Bhan, G., Gulabani, H., Balakrishnan, K., Kapoor, N., Sami, N., Bhor, N., Pattela, O. N., Beleyur, P. R., Anand, S., Mitra, S., Bhatikar, T., John, V., Duque, J. C., Keith, M., Parnell, S., Tucker, A., & Govil, S. (2023). Maximising the benefits of India’s urban transformation: Local evidence synthesis report. PEAK Urban. https://www.peak-urban.org/India-Synthesis-Report
Bhan, G., Chowdhury, A. R., Mehra, R., Sohane, N., & Sampat, K. (2023, August). Social protection in Indian cities: lessons from the pandemic (IIED Policy Brief). IIED, London. https://www.iied.org/21566iied
Bhan, G., & Mehra, R. (2023, August). How far can non-state relief reach?. (IIED Policy Brief). IIED. https://www.iied.org/how-far-can-non-state-relief-reach
Bhan, G., & Anand, S. (2023, August 02). Urban job schemes can recharge our cities and fight deep inequalities. Hindustan Times. https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/urban-job-schemes-can-recharge-our-cities-and-fight-deep-inequalities-101690984350769.html
Mehra, R., Bhan, G., & Jain, J. (2023, August). Filling in the gaps: how Delhi organisations provided food relief during COVID-19. (IIED Policy Brief). IIED.
Bhan, G., Ravindranath, D., Rai Chouwdhury, A., Mehra, R., Sinha, D., Kiran, A., & Malladi, T. (2022). Reproducing a household: Recognising and assessing paid and unpaid domestic work in urban India. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/RHRAPUDWUI11.2022
Anand, S., & Bhan, G. (2022, July 20). An urban employment programme should not be just about wage and work but about skilling too. The Economic Times. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/an-urban-employment-programme-should-not-be-just-about-wage-and-work-but-about-skilling-too/articleshow/93012810.cms
Bhan, G., Ravindranath, D., Rai Chouwdhury, A., Mehra, R., Sinha, D., Kiran, A., & Malladi, T. (2022). Deficits in decent work: Employer perspectives and practices on the quality of employment in domestic work in Urban India. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/DDWEPPQEDWUI11.2022
Bhan, G., Ravindranath, D., Rai Chouwdhury, A., Mehra, R., Sinha, D., Kiran, A., & Malladi, T. (2022). Employer practices and perceptions on paid domestic work: Recruitment, employment relationships, and social protection. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/EPPPDWRERSP11.2022
Bhan, G., D’Souza, P., Gajjar, H., Margosa, N., Mehra, R., Priya, K., & Rashmi, C. S. (2022). Lessons for social protection from the Covid-19 lockdowns report 2 of 2: Non-State actors. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Bhan, G., & Narayanan, R. (2021, June 25). View: The time for a national relief package to prop up Covid-hit working households is now. The Economic Times. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/view-the-time-for-a-national-relief-package-to-prop-up-covid-hit-working-households-is-now/articleshow/83820504.cms
Ravindranath, D., Chowdhury, A. R., Surie, A., & Bhan, G. (2021). Effects of social protection for women in informal work on maternal and child health outcomes: A systematic Literature Review. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Bhan, G., Chowdhury, A. R., & Mehra, R. (2021). State of occupational safety and health practices at workplace for domestic workers in COVID-19 and possibilities for action. International Labour Organization. https://www.ilo.org/newdelhi/whatwedo/publications/WCMS_813644/lang–en/index.htm
Bhan G., Mehra, R., Sohane, N., Vasudev, E., & Yadav, M (2020). Jahan Jhuggi, Vahan Makaan: Assessing the viability and parameters of a Delhi Government JJ cluster improvement scheme. Indian Institute for Human Settlements and Indo-Global Social Service Society.
Bhan, G., Rai Chowdhury, A., Margosa, N., Sampat, K., & Sohane, N. (2020). Lessons for social protection from the Covid-19 lockdowns report 1 of 2: State Relief. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Chowdhury, A. R., Bhan, G., Sampat, K., & RMKU. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 and lockdowns on domestic workers: First report. Rajasthan Mahila Kaamgaar Union (RMKU); Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS).
Frediani, A. A., Cociña, C., Bhan, G., Lwasa, S., Diaz, J. P., & Levy, C. (2020). Institutional capabilities towards urban equality: Reflections from the Know programme in Bangalore, Kampala and Havana (KNOW working paper series, no. 4). Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality.
Bhan, G. (2020, November 19). The vulnerable foundations of India’s urbanism. Public Books. https://www.publicbooks.org/the-vulnerable-foundations-of-indias-urbanism/
Bhan, G., Caldeira, T., Gillespie, K., & Simone, A. M. (2020, August 3). The pandemic, Southern urbanisms and collective life. Society & Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-pandemic-southern-urbanisms-and-collective-life
Bhan, G., (2020, April 08). View: Why the issue of migrant security should be a top priority in India’s covid response. The Economic Times. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/view-why-the-issue-of-migrant-security-should-be-a-top-priority-in-indias-covid-response/articleshow/75054748.cms?from=mdr
Bhan, G., Chakraborty, I., Joshi, S., Kumar, N., Shakeel, A., & Yadav, M. (2019). Isn’t there enough Land? spatial assessments of ‘Slums’ in New Delhi. (IIHS working papers in housing policy and practice Paper 1). Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Bhan, G. (2019, June 6). Stalling: How to save the global city. Publicbooks.org. Retrieved from https://www.publicbooks.org/stalling-how-to-save-the-global-city/
Bhan, G. (2018, September 7). For all that we may become: on the Section 377 verdict. Indiaspend. Retrieved from https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/for-all-that-we-may-become/article24885398.ece
Bhan, G. (2018, January 12). Metrocalypse now. India Today. Retrieved from https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20180122-india-2017-smart-city-swachh-bharat-demonetisation-delhi-pollution-mumbai-elphinstone-stampede-bengaluru-lake-froth-1131375-2018-01-12
Bhan, G. (2017, February 4). India in 10 years: City as a site of trade-offs. Live Mint. http://www.livemint.com/Politics/hUlCSucq526tJa5wRAJCAI/India-in-10-years-City-as-a-site-of-tradeoffs.html
Anand, G., & Bhan, G. (2017). Planning, “violations,” & urban inclusion: A study of Ranchi. Bangalore: Indo-Global Social Service Society, Yuva. https://doi.org/10.24943/iihsyuva.ranchi.2017
Bhan G, (2016, November 15). Welfare shocks are not “Inconveniences”. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2016/11/15/welfare-shocks-are-not-inconveniences/
Bhan, G and Surie, A. (2016) Housing, in Government of Karnataka (ed) Human Development Report: Karnataka. GoK: Bangalore.
Bhan G, (2016, September 2). A city is for all its citizens. The Hindu. Retrieved from http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-city-is-for-all-its-citizens/article9061085.ece
Bhan G, (2016, June 29). Outsmarting the informal city. Live Mint. Retrieved from http://www.livemint.com/Politics/2WB8jDRjdACw 41MIvkFwzL/Outsmarting-the-informal-city.html
Bhan G, (2016, September 2). Reaching for the Universe. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2016/09/02/reaching-for-the-universe/
Bhan G, (2016, June 29). Outsmarting the informal city. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2016/06/29/outsmarting-the-informal-city/
Bhan G, (2016, February 2). A test of dignity and democracy. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2016/02/02/a-test-of-dignity-and-democracy/
Bhan, G. (2015, October 1). Untitled. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2015/10/01/untitled/
Bhan, G. (2015, June 9). Who can build housing for all? Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://Kafila.online/2015/06/09/who-can-build-housing-for-all/
Bhan, G. (2015, April 24). Letter of solidarity with greenpeace India: A Statement. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://Kafila.online/2015/04/24/letter-of-solidarity-with-green-piece-india-a-statement/
Bhan, G. (2015, April 20). My name is Suzette Jordan. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://Kafila.online/2015/04/20/my-name-is-suzette-jordan/
Bhan, G. (2015, March 25). Dealing with ‘Sexist Pigs’? Reflections on the Feminist Protest against AIB’s Avish Mathew at National Law University, Delhi: A Statement. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://Kafila.online/2015/03/25/how-might-we-deal-with-sexist-pigs-indeed-reflections-on-the-feminist-protest-against-aibs-avish-mathew-at-national-law-university-delhi/
Bhan, G. (2015, February 20). Halting the demolition derby. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://Kafila.online/2015/02/20/halting-the-demolition-derby/
Bhan, G. (2015, January 10). What does one write today? Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://Kafila.online/2015/01/10/what-does-one-write-today/
Bhan, G. (2015, February 20). Halting the demolition derby: Aap’s move is welcome now, it must extend secure tenure to slum dwellers to build a more inclusive city. The Indian Express. Retrieved from http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/halting-the-demolition-derby/
Bhan, G. (2015, June 9). From slums to neighbourhoods. The Hindu. Retrieved from http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/from-slums-to-neighbourhoods/article7295297.ece
Bhan, G. (2014). Lessons from somewhere. Cityscapes. Retrieved from http://www.cityscapesdigital.net/2013/11/18/lessons-somewhere/
Bhan, G., Anand, G., & Harish, S. (2014). Policy approaches to affordable housing in urban India: Problems and possibilities (IIHS-RF paper on housing). Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/iihsrfpps3.2014
Anand, S., Bhan, G., Idicheria, C., Jana, A., & Koduganti, J. (2014). Locating the debate: Poverty and vulnerability in urban India (IIHS-RF paper on urban poverty). Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/iihsrfpps4.2014
Bhan, G. (2014, September 12). Thinking through the application for “clarifications” of transgender rights. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2014/09/12/thinking-through-the-clarifications-of-transgender-rights/
Bhan, G. (2014, August 29). Reading the debate on the planning commission. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2014/08/29/reading-the-debate/
Bhan, G. (2014, January 22). Notes of dissent on the AAP Dharna. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2014/01/22/notes-of-dissent-on-the-aap-dharna/
Balakrishnan, K., Bhan, G., Parikh, A., Goswami, A., Sundaresan, J., Sudhira, H. S., … Wankhade, K. (2013). The masters of urban practice: Curriculum framework version 5.0. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/mupv5.2013
Bhan, G. (2013, May 22). In search of a liberal education. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2013/05/22/in-search-of-a-liberal-education/
Bhan, G. (2013, February 1). Sharing the Urban: Why we need to construct broad responses to violence. The Caravan. Retrieved from http://www.caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/sharing-urban
Bhan, G. (2013, January 23). Seven propositions and one challenge from Ejipura. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2013/01/23/six-propositions-and-one-challenge-from-ejipura/
Bhan, G. (2012, November 24). A City’s Pride. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2012/11/24/a-citys-pride/
Bhan, G. (2012, August 18). Strangers in a place they call home: Lawrence Liang. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2012/08/18/ strangers- in-a-place-they-call-home-lawrence-liang/
Bhan, G. (2012, July 13). The right to our bodies. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2012/07/13/the-right-to-our-bodies/
Bhan, G. (2012, June 14). The (Auto)Rakshasa and the Citizen. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2012/06/14/the-autorakshasa-and-the-citizen/
Bhan, G. (2012, April 5). Between aid conditionality and identity politics – the msm-transgender divide and normative cartographies of gender vs. sexuality: Aniruddha Dutta. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2012/04/05/between-aid-conditionality-and-identity-politics-the-msm-transgender-divide-and-normative-cartographies-of-gender-vs-sexuality-aniruddha-dutta/
Bhan, G. (2011, November 1). Invitation to a debate: queer politics and aid conditionalities. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2011/11/01/invitation-to-a-debate-queer-politics-and-aid-conditionalities/
Bhan, G. (2011, August 22). Many halves of a split screen. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2011/08/22/many-halves-of-a-split-screen/
Bhan, G. (2011, July 16). The values of property. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2011/07/16/the-values-of-property/
Bhan, G. (2011, July 6). Mental health professionals criticise union health minister’s statement on homosexuality. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2011/07/06/mental-health-professionals-criticise-union-health-ministers-statement-on-homosexuality/
Bhan, G. (2011, February 15). What can Egypt and Tunisia teach us? Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2011/02/15/what-can-egypt-and-tunisia-teach-us/
Bhan, G. (2010, December 29). Silence as sedition. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2010/12/29/silence-as-sedition/
Bhan, G. (2010, October 3). On the day of the Games. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2010/10/03/on-the-day-of-the-games/
Bhan, G. (2010, September 25). To Delhi. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2010/09/25/to-delhi/
Bhan, G. (2010, August 11). Creative Destructions. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2010/08/11/creative-destructions/
Bhan, G. (2010, April 7). Statement on the death of Dr Srinivas Ramachandra Siras under suspicious circumstances. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2010/04/07/statement-on-the-death-of-dr-srinivas-ramachandra-siras-under-suspicious-circumstances/
Balakrishnan, K., Bhan, G., Parikh, A., Goswami, A., Sundaresan, J., Revi, A., & Wankhade, K. (2010). The masters of urban practice: Draft curriculum framework version 4.0. New Delhi: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Wankhade, K., Bhan, G., Parikh, A., Balakrishnan, K., Goswami, A., & Revi, A. (2010). The masters of urban practice: Draft curriculum framework version 3.0. New Delhi: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/mupv3.2010
Wankhade, K., Bhan, G., Parikh, A., Goswami, A., & Revi, A. (2010). The masters of urban practice: Draft curriculum framework version 2.0. New Delhi: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Wankhade, K., Bhan, G., & Revi, A. (2009). Curriculum development: Mapping of Indian graduate degrees. New Delhi: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Wankhade, K., Bhan, G., & Revi, A. (2009). The masters of urban practice: Draft curriculum framework. New Delhi: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/mup.curriframe.2009
Bhan, G. (2009, June 20). Inside Teheran – 01. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2009/06/20/inside-teheran-01/
Bhan, G. (2009, June 20). Spaces of forgetting. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2009/06/20/spaces-of-forgetting/
Bhan, G. (2009, June 12). The empire’s old(er) clothes. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2009/06/12/the-empires-older-clothes/
Bhan, G. (2009, June 12). For movement. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2009/06/12/for-movement/
Bhan, G. (2009, February 26). Slumdog as Aesthetic. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2009/02/26/slumdog-as-aesthetic/
Bhan, G. (2009, January 1). Truly important questions. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2009/01/01/truly-important-questions/
Bhan, G. (2008, November 29). A pre-emptive defence of an idea of India. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2008/11/29/a-pre-emptive-defence-of-an-idea-of-india/
Bhan, G. (2008, November 5). A letter from America. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2008/11/05/a-letter-from-america/
Bhan, G. (2008, October 15). Cities, Cars and Buses: The Modern, the Ideological and the Urban. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2008/10/15/cities-cars-and-buses-the-modern-the-ideological-and-the-urban/
Bhan, G. (2008, June 28). Pride, prejudice and politics. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2008/06/28/pride-prejudice-and-politics/
Bhan, G. (2007, December 3). Imagining governance and governing our imagination. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2007/12/03/imagining-governance-and-governing-our-imagination/
Bhan, G. (2007, May 19). Queer images. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2007/05/19/queer-images/
Bhan, G. (2007, April 16). From informal to illegal. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2007/04/16/from-informal-to-illegal/
Bhan, G. (2006, November 27). Brand: Delhi. Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2006/11/27/brand-delhi/
Bhan, G. (2006, November 4). Whose city do we live in? Kafila.org. Retrieved from https://kafila.online/2006/11/04/whose-city-do-we-live-in/
Bhan, G (2005) Sexual rights in India: A new paradigm? CREA: New Delhi.
Bhan, G (2000). India gender profile: Gender and development concerns in the Indian context. Institute of Development Studies (Brighton: IDS).

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Keynote Lectures

2024: Chair’s Plenary Conversations at Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK
2024: Semi-Plenary Keynote Lecture. RC 21 Annual Conference on “The politics and spaces of encounters: advancing dialogues between and within the Global North and the Global South”. Santiago, Chile
2023: Uta-Do: African Cities Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya
2023: The 23rd Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2023: Keynote Lecture, Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series on “Women’s urban care practices in Europe and Latin America ” Humboldt University of Berlin and Universidad de los Andes.
2022: Keynote Lecture, Development Studies Association Conference on “Just sustainable futures in an urbanising and mobile world” London, UK
2021: Nobel Week Dialogue on “The City of the Future”, Svenska Mässan, Gothenburg
2021: Keynote Lecture, Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK
2019: Keynote Lecture, Human Development and Capability Association Conference, London, UK
2018: Keynote Lecture. African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference “: Theoretical Vectors and Methodological Frontiers.” Cape Town, South Africa
2015: The 6^th Annual Carol Breckenridge Memorial Lecture, PUKAR, Mumbai, India

Conference Presentations

Bhan, G., D’Souza, P., Gajjar, H., Margosa, N., Mehra, R., Priya, K., Rashmi, C. S., Chowdhury, A. R., Sampat, K., & Sohane, N. (2023). Lessons for social protection from the Covid-19 lockdowns. In Urban arc 2023: Cities in flux – IIHS annual research conference. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Bhan, G., Gupte, R., Kundu, R., Maringanti, A., & Shetty, P. (2021, July 14-16). What difference does a year make: Indian urban worlds [Conference session]. In S. Oosterlynck, E. Van Wymeersch, F. Laoukili, M. Van Dam, & K. Boven (Eds.), RC21 Conference Sensing the City: Place, People, Power (p. 133). University of Antwerp.
Bhan, G. (2016, June). Asking the wrong question: Smart cities in contemporary urban India. In J. Stollmann, K. Wolf, A. Bruck, S. Frank, A. Million, P. Misselwitz, … C. Schroder (Eds.), Symposium Proceedings of Beware of Smart People: Redefining the Smart City Paradigm towards Inclusive Urbanism (pp. 103-112). Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin.
Bhan, G. (2010). Reclaiming the public’s interest: Reimagining the poor into Delhi’s millennial landscape. In N. AlSayyad (Ed.), The Utopia of Tradition, the Twelfth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (pp. 62-63). Berkeley, CA: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments.

COVID-19 Social Science Research Evidence Platform: COVID Collective
Delivering Social Protection to Informal Workers: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 Relief Measures in India
Government of Delhi Emergency Hunger Committee
Urban Employment Programmes
Study on Examining Paid and Unpaid Domestic Work in Urban Homes
CMRETAC Project: Towards a Different Future of Work: A Framework for Informal Work and Workers in Urban Rajasthan
Informality and Child Care
A Study to Explore Child Care and Feeding Practices among Working Women in the Informal Sector
Livelihood and Nurturing Care (LiNC)
Non-Communicable Dieases in Low-Income Urban Neighbourhoods: The Case of KG Halli, Bengaluru
Children in All Policies 2030 project
Isn‘t There Enough Land? Spatial Assessments of ’Slums’ in New Delhi
Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makaan
Karnataka Affordable Housing Policy
Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission
Main Bhi Dilli Campaign
PEAK Urban: Urban Health in the Indian Metropolis: Systems, Intersections and Emergent Concerns
Planning for Activists
Analysing and Providing Suggestions and Recommendations for Drafting the Model National Rental Housing Policy
Caste and the Urban: An Interdisciplinary Review
Chief Minister of Rajasthan’s Economic Transformation Advisory Council (CMRETAC) – Urban Transitions
Urban India Policy Support Partnership
Karnataka Slum Areas Development Policy
Planning, ‘Violations’ and Urban Inclusion
Reframing Urban Inclusion
Tacit Urban Knowledge Network (TURN)
Tenure Security for Slum Dwellers

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