This paper aims to study the social implications of emergency-based displacement through the case study of a resettled colonies in East Delhi. The idea of ‘social’ in this paper is not just limited to the activities, interactions, and reproduction, but it looks into the formation of unequal social relations over four decades. Using historical and social science methods, it tries to understand the social implication of emergency, as imagined in policies; how it was actually exercised, and what structures it made for communities and people.