The politics of the urban poor in early twentieth-century India / Nandini Gooptu.

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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Gooptu, Nandini
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:	Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ; 8.
Subjects:	Urban poor > India. Rural-urban migration > India. Rural-urban migration. Urban poor. India.