Through a contemporary micro-history, this paper examines different power matrices to craft social and material infrastructures in Jangpura-Bhogal, Delhi. It revisits the history of resident, economic, and religious collectives to shape social and material infrastructures in the neighbourhood. This includes the production of religious space, economic life, educational institutions, and neighbourhood space. Local political networks, socio-economic capital, historic spatially proximate relations, varying administrative and legal regimes, and a persistent presence-absence dynamic mediate these processes. The paper addresses Delhi’s long twentieth century through the neighbourhood to show that market relations, apart from historical residence and spatial proximity, have been vital to producing not only neighbourhood socialities and infrastructures. This history of entanglements between the state, judiciary, and neighbourhood socialities translates to different infrastructural possibilities for Jangpura-Bhogal’s diverse populations. It also produces spatial and historical displacements to craft space in Jangpura-Bhogal. In doing so, the paper reconsiders scholarly claims of a neoliberal disjuncture in urban politics that has brought Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) and Market Trader Associations (MTAs) into prominence through legislative feat. Several formal and informal collectives such as trader/market associations, religious associations, resident collectives, refugee organisations, and resident welfare associations have evolved out of social and material relations around shifting configurations of power. This longer history provides the foundation for contemporary RWA and MTA practices.