Chapter 5 examines the experiences through which large-scale state violence was greeted with nonconfrontational responses in a single slum. It traces how slum residents, denied legal redress through the courts and political redress through electoral channels, try to imagine a place for themselves in a city that declares them outsiders. It argues that despite slum residents’ profound critiques of their displacement, their sense of the possible is shaped as much by embodied experiences of urban change and everyday aesthetic practices as by ideology. It considers how a type of aesthetic hegemony was forged that failed to capture the rational interests of its subjects, but nonetheless drew them into a world-class “community of sense": a shared sense of what the future holds and what is necessary to achieve it. It is this realm of aesthetics that is key terrain on which the urban question must be framed in contemporary India.