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This is the first book to stress the need for study of regional and local politics as an integral part of the history of the Congress.
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This book explores the informal patronage relations between urban slum-dwellers and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines to what extent the people in the slums are subject to social and political exclusion. Delving into the roles of the slum-based mediators and local municipal councillors, it highlights the problems in the functioning of democracy at the ground level, as election candidates target vote banks with freebies and private sector funding to manage campaigns. It provides a comprehensive overview of the various actors within local municipal governance and democracy as also consequences for citizenship, urban poverty, public services and neo-liberal politics.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
This Vivid But Realistic Volume On Mumbai Will Serve As An Essential And Contemporary Urban Social History Of Mumbai And Will Be Useful To Sociologists, Historians, Urban Theorists, Political Scientists And Culturalists.