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

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

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, Book 8

General Political ScienceGeneral World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0521617138
ISBN13: 9780521617130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 31 2005
Pages: 492
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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