Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India

Klappentext Nandini Gooptu's magisterial history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force. Zusammenfassung Nandini Gooptu's 2001 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Nandini Gooptu, Nandini (University of Oxford) Gooptu
• Assisted by: Christopher Alan Bayly (Editor), Rajnarayan Chandavarkar (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2005
• EAN: 9780521617130
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61713-0
• No. of pages: 492
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society; Cambridge Studies in Indian Hi; Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education