Rukmini Barua

In the Shadow of the Mill (eBook, PDF)

Workers'' Neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000s

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents a historical ethnography of two workers'' neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, a city in Western India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009032407
• Artikelnr.: 70910005

Autorenporträt

Rukmini Barua is a senior researcher at Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute of Development, Berlin. Prior to this she was at Humboldt University, Berlin. Her areas of interest include informal labour, political economy, urban studies and labour history in Modern South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
1. Setting the stage: A brief political history of Ahmedabad, 1920s to 2000s
Part I. Incarnations of the Political Intermediary: 2. The TLA and dadagiri: Mediation in the mill neighbourhoods
3. The underground economy, the state and the political intermediary
4. Civil society, 'social work' and political mediation
Part II. Property and Precarity: 5. Chawls without chimneys
6. Violence, law and 'Ghettoisation'
7. Security and tenancy at the margins of the city
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index.