Politics of archiving: Hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta

Dialectical Anthropology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 295-316

  Bandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Archive; Democracy; Footpath; Governmentaliy; Hawkers; Informal economy; Pavement dwellers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053319302     PISSN: 03044092     EISSN: 15730786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10624-010-9199-1     Document Type: Article

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