Synopsis This book is about the local impacts of a global phenomenon, the connection. It is putting together of policies and reforms in urban India in the period of reforms and observing manifestation of reforms in two metropolitan cities, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. It is for the first time that national and state level policies and reform activities are put together in the same place. The policies and reforms have been observed at the national level and state level. But, the local impacts are observed with respect to two issues, municipal finance in the two metropolises and land market in Ahmedabad. The book concludes by observing that urban reforms are proceeding mainly in the metropolitan cities but at a faster rate than the national economic integration and the reform process is funded by multilateral and bilateral funding agencies, which are also laying down the contents of the reforms process. Finally the book identifies issues where further analysis is required.