Villages in the City: The Gramastha Mandals of Mumbai
Drawing on a year’s fieldwork in the Mumbai BDD Chawls neighborhood, this paper analyses an urban migration phenomenon called the gramastha mandal. Gramastha mandals are village-run committees that buy chawl (tenement) rooms and rent them to single male migrants from their own villages. Save a few s...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2019-07-01
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| Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/5414 |
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