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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By:"Nandini Gooptu"
"History"
Published on 2001-07-05 by Cambridge University Press

The very logic of Adi Hinduism, with a section of the \u003cb\u003eIndian\u003c/b\u003e population claiming to \u003cbr\u003e\nbe the true inheritors of the land, ... \u003cb\u003eGandhi's\u003c/b\u003e own idiom of devotional religion \u003cbr\u003e\ncould potentially resonate with the bhakti religion of the untouchables and with \u003cbr\u003e\nthe ...

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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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