9789354420405 - OUTCASTE BOMBAY: CITY MAKING AND THE POLITICS (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Introduction. 1. The Housing Question and Caste, 1896 1950. 2. Marxism, Language and Social Hierarchy, 1920 1950. 3. Urban Planning and Cultural Politics, 1945 1971. 4. Revolutionary Lineages of Dalit Literature, 1950 1972. 5. Slums, Sex, and the Field of Power, 1960 1984. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index. What is the history of caste in a city? Indian modernizers assumed that the various processes of modernity, including industrial capitalism, would attenuate caste and create the possibility of new social relationships, including class solidarity. Instead, capitalism relied on caste to recruit and discipline labor and the colonial and postcolonial governments deployed it for housing, city planning, and provisions for social welfare. On its part, caste adapted to housing, urban planning, and even land tenures. Even the purported antitheses of capitalism Marxism and Communism could not annihilate caste. As a result, caste became robust even as it was shrouded beneath the veneer of modern urban life. Outcaste Bombay examines the interplay of caste and class in twentieth-century Bombay. It studies processes that are transnational capitalism, Marxism, urban planning, literature and the ways in which they became relevant to life in the city. It focuses on urban outcastes Dalits primarily, and also the urban poor to trace their interaction with city-making and urban politics, their sense of self and community, and the cultural life they fashioned in Bombay. This interdisciplinary book draws on rare English and Marathi-language sources including novels, poems, and manifestoes and contributes to debates in the fields of South Asian history, global Marxism, social anthropology, urban studies, labor studies, Dalit studies, and literature.