"It is a delight to read with ease (a book to take on the train, or in the park to read) and without unnecessary jargon; it is poetic, and each chapter fits together neatly, synchronically. [ ] [ If] Lefebvre (concerned with socio-spatial and urban theory), had been able to read the book, he would have delighted in its political, place-based grit, and its spatial poetics. The sketches are wonderful and the narrative throughout takes the reader behind the barricades and onto the compact streets of urban places; to the "protestors' city". [ ] [ It is] a highly recommended text for students, scholars and anyone interested in the sociology and politics of protest in urban India."Dr Jim Taylor Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Adelaide
