Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Durga Puja, Kumartuli, and Kolkata -- Festival, religion, culture, and politics -- Colonial Calcutta's Durga Puja -- Barowari brought inclusivity -- Cultural heritage, informality, and idol-crafting practice -- Structure of the book -- 2 Crafts and practitioners -- Idol-crafting practice and sustainability -- Kumbhakar caste relates to pottery -- The caste-based potters' para -- Interwoven communities of practice -- Emerging actors and shifts -- 3 The spaces of production -- The neighbourhood -- Streetscapes, alleys, riverfront -- The conventional workshop-residence -- The 'factory-shed' workshop -- 4 Seasonal adaptations and everyday negotiations -- The preparation phase -- Adaptations, accommodations, and negotiations -- Infrastructural disrepair and hopelessness -- Social cohesion, coordination, and competition -- Will Kumartuli continue to thrive? -- 5 Complexities -- The redevelopment plan -- Reaction and resistance to the KMDA plan -- Tenure and ownership: realities -- Informality in the heritage -- 6 The emerging and diverging spaces of production -- Kumartuli on a regular day -- Changing spaces: repurposed workshop -- Agency and new typologies -- Appropriation and socio-spatial relations -- Spatial flexibility and reparation in a Kolkata basti -- 7 Kumartuli's future? -- Kumartuli's present -- Reparations and public services -- Contributions and implications of this research -- Recommendations -- Personal reflections -- Methodological appendix: research strategies -- Glossary of Bengali words -- Index.