The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society)

通過關注種姓，宗教和民族主義政治中的窮人的角色，以及他們對城市經濟的貢獻，作者展示了他們是如何在兩次大戰期間成為南亞的主要社會因素。實證資料集中於北方邦，對城市環境惡劣意味著什麼：對工作場所的剝削，尋找住房的問題，警察騷擾，精英階層的社會和政治排斥，提供了令人信服的見解。

從這個角度來看20世紀初期印度政治的歷史，筆者對現在對宗派主義和民族主義政治的解釋提出質疑，認為社會認同的突出性和階級在政治分析中的不相干。本書將關注那些與城市社會歷史，種族和教派衝突，民族主義，貧窮，勞工和階級關係政治有關的人。

Nandini 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.

  Nandini Gooptu (Autor)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press 

ISBN:    978-0521443661 

原價      £:60 : 台幣價 NT$:3000