Pacifc Afairs: Volume 91, No. 3 – September 2018 628 fndings to a global level, drawing on case studies from Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Northern Ireland. The study’s structure nicely supports the author’s arguments. The detailed description of various contemporary and historical case studies (including Gorkhaland, the Andhra state movement, Telangana, and Khalistan), ensures that even those less familiar with quantitative models can follow the argument. The study is strongest in deciphering the mechanisms of federal reorganization by linking the elites at the national, state, and sub-state levels. It makes a serious attempt at opening the black box of competing interests on the “periphery.” However, considering the political change in India since independence, I found it questionable whether the mechanisms leading to federal change in the 1950s still apply today. Tillin (Remapping India. New States and their Origins, Hurst & Company, 2013), for instance, points out the changing conditions enabling reorganization in 2000: mobilization of lower castes, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s shift towards state reorganization, and accommodation of social movements. Further, the argument’s inherent instrumentalism (i.e., electoral considerations of the prime minister) does not account for the highly emotional nature of many autonomy agitations and their at times spontaneous emergence. After all, autonomy movements themselves are complex constructs with competing interests (Lacina accounts for this in terms of co-ethnic rivalry). For readers more interested in autonomy movements themselves, or their various mechanisms of mobilization and framing, the book is less revealing. In sum, however, Lacina’s highly inspiring study provides original insights into a so-far understudied aspect of ethnoterritorial movements. The book is extremely useful for those trying to understand the twists and turns of federalism and ethnoterritorial claims, as well as the political, legal, and colonial background of such developments in India and beyond. Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Miriam Wenner NO ONE WILL LET HER LIVE: Women’s Struggle for Well-Being in a Delhi Slum. By Claire Snell-Rood; photographs by Mayank Austen Soofi. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. xx, 273 pp. (B&W photos.) US$29.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-520-28482-1. The growing scholarship on informal urban settlements in India (and also other parts of the world) clearly shows that “slums” should neither be reduced to a “housing question” nor be approached through the lens of “inadequacies.” Instead, we ought to listen, see, and map the practices and forms through which urban residents build and create lives in the informal settlements. Claire Snell-Rood’s book, No One Will Let Her Live, is a significant addition to this scholarship.