The Indian city defies every law of governance. The complexity of religious communal exclusion and caste hierarchy is in tandem with the crass dilapidation of city's built environment. There is a chaotic fusion of tradition and modernity expressed in myriad ways as the city dwellers identify and make use of the city's social space. This has created a unique spatial pattern of living conditions and well-being status of various social groups.The present book renders the role of a window to peep into this unique developing world growth saga, through case study of Aligarh city, which somehow defies to take a course of healthy comedy.