Front Cover -- Holding Their Ground -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. International Trends and Country Contexts -- From Tenure Regularization to Tenure Security: Alain Durand-Lasserve and Lauren Royston -- Background -- Irregular settlements and security of tenure -- From tenure regularization to security of tenure: The ongoing debate on strategies regarding tenure issues for the urban poor -- A framework for positioning Indian, Brazilian and South African tenure security policies in the international debate -- Key themes for a comparative reading of the country chapters in the context of global issues -- Part 1: India -- 2. Security of Tenure in Indian Cities: Banashree Banerjee -- An overview of policy and practice -- Governance of urban land in India -- Security of tenure in national policy -- Determinants of policy reorientation -- Instruments for policy implementation -- Irregular settlements in Indian cities -- Examples of strategies, tools and techniques for providing security of tenure to squatter settlements -- Conclusion -- 3. Policies for Tenure Security in Delhi: Neelima Risbud -- The city development context -- Urban land policy -- Settlement typologies and land tenure -- Government policies -- Conclusion -- 4. Security of Tenure: Mumbai's Experience: Minar Pimple and Lysa John -- Types of tenure arrangements in the city of Mumbai -- Assessment of the tenure status of the urban poor -- Interventions for security of tenure -- Case Studies of intervention around issues of tenure -- 5. Security of Tenure of Irregular Settlements in Visakhapatnam: Banashree Banerjee -- Informal settlements in a rapidly growing city -- Slum improvement and tenure regularization: Two decades of experience.