Enumerating the semi-visible: The politics of regularising Delhi's unauthorised colonies

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 47, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 89-97

  Zimmer, Anna ^a  

^a a Network of Research Units of the National Centre for Scientific Research   (India)

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