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        <journal-title>Indian Journal of Social Enquiry</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">IJSE</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">applied</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0974-9012</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Prof Gitanjali Chawla</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">IJSE1130005</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Construction of City Space and Class Identity in Shama Futehally&apos;s Novel Tara Lane</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Premdeep</surname>
            <given-names>Aditya</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="aff1">Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi</aff>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-09-02">
        <month>09</month>
        <day>02</day>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>13</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>53</fpage>
      <lpage>63</lpage>
      <abstract>
        <p>Post LPG (liberalization, privatization, and globalization) phase the divide
between poor and rich has increasingly widened specifically in the Indian cities.
Mumbai is no different. In fact, indiscriminate industrialisation and
urbanisation have sharpened the distinction. Indeed, some of the most
expensive and luxurious housing societies coexist side by side with some of the
most deprived and overcrowded slums in Mumbai. Futehally&apos;s novel Tara Lane
shows this ambivalence of the Mumbai city very realistically. This paper makes
an attempt to study the reconstruction of the contemporary city space and
broad class division in the Mumbai city as portrayed in Futehally&apos;s novel.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>City Space</kwd>
        <kwd>Class conflict</kwd>
        <kwd>Shama Futehally</kwd>
        <kwd>Urbanization</kwd>
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