Extensive fieldwork in village Palsaura on the periphery of the modern planned city of Chandigarh shows that although the neighbouring city brings employment, infrastructure and money to its rural hinterland, there is also a seamy side: disintegration of the social fabric, drug abuse, crime, prostitution, and so on.
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