LEADER 03449nam 22006132 450 001 9910455056703321 005 20151015163014.0 010 $a1-107-11203-6 010 $a1-139-25225-9 010 $a1-283-34209-X 010 $a9786613342096 010 $a1-139-15972-0 010 $a1-139-15516-4 010 $a0-511-05272-3 010 $a0-511-15291-4 010 $a0-511-01757-X 035 $a(CKB)111056485644088 035 $a(EBL)164763 035 $a(OCoLC)50096058 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139252256 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC164763 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL164763 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5001732 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL334209 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485644088 100 $a20111103d2001|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe politics of the urban poor in early twentieth-century India /$fNandini Gooptu$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2001. 215 $a1 online resource (xxiii, 464 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in Indian history and society ;$v8 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-61713-8 311 $a0-521-44366-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 431-447) and index. 327 $a1. The study and its perspectives -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. II. Modes of political action and perception. 5. Untouchable assertion. 6. Militant Hinduism. 7. Resurgent Islam. 8. Nationalist action. 9. Congress socialst mobilisation. 10. The politics of exclusion and the 'virtuous deprived'. 330 $aNandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force. By focusing on the role of the poor in caste, religious and nationalistic politics, and on their contribution to the urban economy, the author demonstrates how they emerged as a major social factor in South Asia during the interwar period. The empirical material, concentrated on Uttar Pradesh, provides compelling insights into what it meant to be poor in the urban environment: exploitation in the workplace, the problems of finding housing, police harassment, social and political exclusion by the elite. Approaching the history of early twentieth-century Indian politics from this perspective, the author takes issue with current interpretations of sectarian and nationalist politics which argue the salience of community identity and the irrelevance of class in political analysis. This book will interest those concerned with urban social history, ethnic and sectarian conflict, nationalism, and the politics of poverty, labour and class relations. 410 0$aCambridge studies in Indian history and society. ;$v8. 606 $aUrban poor$zIndia 606 $aRural-urban migration$zIndia 615 0$aUrban poor 615 0$aRural-urban migration 676 $a305.569/0954 700 $aGooptu$b Nandini$01046785 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455056703321 996 $aThe politics of the urban poor in early twentieth-century India$92473972 997 $aUNINA