Cosmopolitan imaginaries on the margins: negotiating difference and belonging in a Delhi resettlement colony

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-81

  Ramakrishnan, Kavita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cosmopolitanism; Delhi; difference; marginality; resettlement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895067169     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2013.870976     Document Type: Article

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