There has been a recent interest in expanding the focus of deindustrialisation studies to the cities of the Global South. Bangalore, with its long legacy of state sponsored industrialisation, as well as a substantial shift in its economy following economic liberalisation in 1991, presents itself as a suitable case to examine the impacts of industrial transformation. We study the decline of the engineering economy in one of Bangalore’s earliest planned industrial suburbs, Rajajinagar, to understand how industrial restructuring at the city and national scale has affected and reconfigured local economies. Using this case study, we make two main theoretical contributions: one, we bring out shifts at a neighbourhood scale that go beyond the existing literature on neoliberal transformations in Bangalore as well as other Indian cities. Two, the case also allows us to assess the limitations of deindustrialisation as a framework to analyse these changes, and we suggest a modified framework, that of ‘industrial destabilisation’.

最近有兴趣将去工业化研究的重点扩展到全球南方的城市。班加罗尔拥有国家资助的工业化的悠久传统，以及 1991 年经济自由化后经济的重大转变，是检验工业转型影响的合适案例。我们研究了班加罗尔最早规划的工业郊区之一 Rajajinagar 的工程经济衰退，以了解城市和国家规模的工业重组如何影响和重新配置当地经济。使用这个案例研究，我们做出了两个主要的理论贡献：一，我们在社区范围内带来了超越班加罗尔和其他印度城市新自由主义转型的现有文献的转变。二，