Paper short abstract:

The paper attempts to show enterpreneurship grows and thrives in peripheries of mega cities like Mumbai, inspite of growing de-industrialisation and poor working conditions.

Paper long abstract:

Subaltern is a social group who are socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony or the colonial home land.The peripheries and slums of mega cities produce informal entrepreneurs who contribute to the growth and functioning of megacities. Slums and peripheries of megacities may be termed as 'warehouses' that produce cheap labour force for the big and small industries. These small industries are run by the inhabitants of the slum and peripheral towns, who we can also be term as 'subaltern entrepreneurs'. These subaltern entrepreneurs most of the times escape the government policies, industrial laws and labour laws to run the enterprise with minimum investments leading to inhuman working conditions. The paper tries to highlight how the people at peripheries of megacities become entrepreneurs with no or minimal government support and policies. However, as a result of not coming under government regulation these entrepreneurs suffer in terms of, capital and financial requirements, technological upgradation, safety issues etc. The paper thus tries to show how Enterpreneurship thrives and grows in the peripheries of mega cities like Mumbai and is a response to the lacking framework of policy making. These entrepreneurs use their social relations to sustain in their occupation with little or no support from the state.