TY - BOOK AU - Gooptu, Nandini TI - Politics of the urban poor in early twentieth-century India SN - 0521617138 U1 - 362.50954 PY - 2004/// CY - London,Cambridge,New Delhi etc PB - Cambridge Uni. Press N1 - 1. The study and its perspectives 1 Part 1: Changing conditions and experiences in interwar north India 25 2..The poor in urban setting 27 3. Urban local policies and the poor 66 4. Urban policing and the poor 111 Part 2: Modes of political action and perception 141 5. Untouchable assertion 143 6. Militant Hinduism 185 7. Resurgent Islam 244 8. Nationalist action 321 9. Congress socialist mobilisation 365 10. The politics of exclusion and the 'virtuous deprived' 420 Bibliography 431 Index 448 ER -