Contemporary research on urban studies explicates a systemic link of “Social exclusion” with modern urbanism. Several celebrated studies of last few decades, explains, how under modern urbanism city cosmos get structurally designed to feature the “geography of centrality and marginality, of affluence and of poverty” (Giddens). Such studies also upheld that contemporary urban spaces across the world have become highly unequal spaces, by corroborating the logic of spatial inclusion and spatial exclusion dichotomy. Thus, under modern urbanism, where spaces get continuously structured and restructured, social exclusion of some or other group are structurally reinforced, where city subalterns usually face the extreme form of exclusion in the process. In Guwahati, the emerging metropolis of Northeast India the process of social exclusion is not a rarity. As the city grows; it seems to exclude a section of people (subalterns) structurally within the city’s boundaries, while gradually incorporating the needs of “the Others”. It is under this context, that it becomes extremely important to interrogate and understand the phenomenon of social exclusion in urban spaces sociologically. This paper, hence proposes to discuss theoretically, the nature of social exclusion in Guwahati city, it will try to analyze, how certain groups and individual face deprivation of resources or of social linkages to wider community and also how certain restrictive boundaries are being constructed for them within the larger city spaces. The paper shall delve deeper to locate the structuring forces which play a major role in institutionalizing the process of social exclusion in Guwahati city.