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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gooptu, Nandini.
Imprint:	Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description:	1 online resource (xxiii, 464 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ; 8 Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ; 8.
Subject:	Urban poor -- India. Rural-urban migration -- India. Rural-urban migration. Urban poor. India.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117404

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ISBN:	051101757X 9780511017575 0511037481 9780511037481 9781139252256 1139252259 128334209X 9781283342094 9780521443661 0521443660 9780521617130 0521617138 1107112036 9781107112032 9786613342096 6613342092 1139159720 9781139159722 1139155164 9781139155168 0511052723 9780511052729 0521443660 0511152914 9780511152917
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-447) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Nandini Gooptu's history of the Indian urban poor represents a tour-de-force. It focuses on themes ranging from the social construction of poverty, religious and caste identities and nationalist and labour politics. In this way, the book contributes to current debates on the nature of subaltern politics and consciousness.
Other form:	Print version: Gooptu, Nandini. Politics of the urban poor in early twentieth-century India. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521443660

Table of Contents:

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