Research Catalog

Title

People without history : India's Muslim ghettos / Jeremy Seabrook and Imran Ahmed Siddiqui.

Author

Seabrook, Jeremy, 1939-

Publication

New York ; London : Pluto Press, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Siddiqui, Imran Ahmed.

Description

ix, 257 pages : illustrations; 20 cm

Summary

"The authors examine life in Muslim communities in Kolkata, home to some of the most disadvantaged people in India, giving a voice to their views, values and feelings. We see that Muslims are no different from those of other faiths--work, family and survival ar the overwhelming preoccupations of the vast majority. Although most are observant in their religion, there is no trace of the malevolence or poverty-fuelled extremism attributed to them"--Back cover.

Subject

• Muslims > India > Kolkata > Economic conditions
• Muslims > India > Kolkata > Social conditions
• Poor > India > Kolkata
• Poverty > India > Kolkata
• Inner cities > India > Kolkata
• Economic history
• Inner cities
• Muslims > Economic conditions
• Muslims > Social conditions
• Poverty
• Social conditions
• Poor
• Getto
• Muslim
• Religiöse Minderheit
• Urban poor > India > Kolkata
• Kolkata (India) > Economic conditions
• Kolkata (India) > Social conditions
• India > Kolkata
• Indien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Acknowledgements (starting p. vi) -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- 1. Topsia (starting p. 9) -- 2. Injustice (starting p. 77) -- 3. Beniapukur (starting p. 89) -- 4. Defining Slums (starting p. 117) -- 5. Tiljala Road (starting p. 122) -- 6. Victimisation (starting p. 196) -- 7. Tangra (starting p. 200) -- 8. Postscript: A Servant's Story (starting p. 250) -- Notes (starting p. 255)

ISBN

• 9780745331140
• 0745331149
• 9780745331133
• 0745331130

LCCN

2011282162

OCLC

• ocn687698869
• 687698869
• SCSB-14439072

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library