Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper argues that stand-up comedy produces the places it uses in the city of Mumbai as “safe” for new middle-class women by excluding Dalit and working-class people who are deemed “dangerous.” Such exclusion is achieved by mobilising places and infrastructure that are built to make Mumbai a “world-class” city, a process that requires the dispossession and exploitation of the masses from which the new middle-class benefits. In the context of the sexual harassment charges that hit the stand-up comedy scene in 2018 and the responses to those charges, I posit that stand-up comedy is a site where “appropriate” gender hierarchies are formulated in the pursuit of “global Indian-ness.”
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