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020			_a0521443660 (hbk)
082	0	0	_a305.569/0954 _bNAN/P
100	1		_aNandini Gooptu
245	0	4	_aThe politics of the urban poor in early twentieth-century India
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge University Press, _c2001.
300			_axxiii, 464 p.
520			_aNandini 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.
650		0	_aUrban poor
650		0	_aRural-urban migration
942			_cBK
999			_c62240 _d62240