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The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India

By Nandini Gooptu

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780521443661, 0521443660
LCC
HV4138.I4 G66 2001
Open Library ID
OL6789712M
Language
english
Format
RAR
Filesize
10 MB (10150381 bytes)
Series
Cambridge studies in Indian history and society 8
Pages
490\0
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

Nandini Gooptu's magisterial history of the Indian urban poor represents a tour-de-force. By focusing on the role of the poor in caste, religious and national politics, the author demonstrates how they emerged as a major social factor in South Asia during the interwar period. The empirical material provides compelling insights into what it meant to be poor and how the impoverished dealt with their predicament. In this way, the book contributes to some of the most crucial debates on the nature of subaltern politics and consciousness.

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