gaothan
From Marathi/Hindi 'gaon' (village), a gaothan is a pre-existing village settlement absorbed into a growing Indian city.
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From Marathi/Hindi 'gaon' (village), a gaothan is a pre-existing village settlement absorbed into a growing Indian city. These pockets retain older building styles and land tenure rules that predate municipal planning, often creating a dense, informal character surrounded by modern development. Common in Mumbai urban-planning discourse.
The redevelopment plan had to work around the gaothan, whose residents held ancestral land rights outside the city's zoning laws.
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(India) An urban village.
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