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id	eprints-38124
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institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	The history of 20th century Delhi is an intertwined history of the city and the slum. Investigating strategies of being and belonging deployed by the urban poor in the Delhi basti of Nangla Matchi, which was demolished in 2006, this paper explores three varied individual biographies as sites of meanings regarding processes of the state, the unstable contexts of livelihoods, and histories of intra-national displacement. This paper further seeks to make an ethnographic contribution to studies of the urban margins by examining the overlapping careers of “margin” and “centre” as cultural, political and economic contexts. The life-stories described in this paper, thus, concern the ways in which the metropolises of power, comfort, pleasure, and hygiene are built over, and through, the provinces of powerlessness, pain, suffering and displacement.
format	Journal Article
author	Srivastava, Sanjay
author_facet	Srivastava, Sanjay
authorStr	Srivastava, Sanjay
author_letter	Srivastava, Sanjay
title	A Hijra, a Female Pradhan and a Real Estate Dealer: Between the Market, the State and 'Community'
publisher	Sameeksha Trust
publishDate	2011
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/38124/