Within and outside formal academia, the mobility of people from rural to a more nearby, immediate urban town-scape is a rather discussed phenomenon. In India, though, social mobility of people is also unflinchingly attached to their caste identity.
It would be fallacious to define a neighbourhood solely on the basis of its physical boundaries. An essential feature of a neighbourhood is its people who built identities and community connections through everyday interactions, difference and diversity, and mutual inter-dependence.
