Most people like to live in a neighbourhood of the similar and the familiar. In India we took it a step too far. In an Agraharam only Brahmins, often of the same sub-caste, would live. Dalits in a village were told where their place was. Moving into urban spaces, people continued to live among people they were familiar with. In my home city of Hyderabad the Maharashtrians from regions that were part of the erstwhile Nizam’s kingdom tended to live in and around Kacheguda. Tamilians, who came with the British-Indian army, lived in Marredpally. When Muslims moved out of the Old City they tended to live among their own in and around Masab Tank.