The nuisance of slums: Environmental law and the production of slum illegality in India

Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-49

  Asher Ghertner, D ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84905623219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203085332     Document Type: Chapter

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