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Slums: Of Labor and Democracy in Indian Cities - Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums. By Adam Michael Auerbach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvii, 304 pp. ISBN: 9781108491938 (cloth). - Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay. By Sheetal Chhabria. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. xi, 235 pp. ISBN: 9780295746289 (cloth).
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2021
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