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The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521443661
Veröffentl:
2012
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Erscheinungsdatum:
20.03.2012
Seiten:
490
Autor:
Nandini Gooptu
Gewicht:
941 g
Format:
235x157x33 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Nandini Gooptu's magisterial history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.
List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Select glossary; 1. The study and its perspectives; Part I. Changing Conditions and Experiences in Interwar North India: 2. The poor in the urban setting; 3. Urban local policies and the poor; 4. Urban policing and the poor; Part II. Modes of Political Action and Perception: 5. Untouchable assertion; 6. Militant Hinduism; 7. Resurgent Islam; 8. Nationalist action; 9. Congress socialist mobilisation; 10. The politics of exclusion and the 'virtuous deprived'; Bibliography; Index.