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100			_aGooptu, Nandini
245			_aThe `problem' of the urban poor policy and discourse of local administration: a study in Uttar Pradesh in the interwar period
260			_c1996
300			_ap.3245-254
362			_a14 Dec
520			_aBased on a case study of four of the largest towns of Uttar Pradesh, this paper discusses the measures of the local authorities to reduce urban overcrowding, to improve sanitary and public health conditions and to implement town-planning schemes, all of which were undertaken in the interwar period on a far more extensive scale than ever before. It demonstrates that these policies contributed significantly to the `creation' of the `problem' of the urban poor, both materially by intensifying their scarcity of housing or impairing their sources of livelihood and discursively by categorising them as a distinct social group defined by their undesirabale habits and practices. - Reproduced
650			_aLocal government - India - Uttar Pradesh
650			_aPoverty
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a32983
999			_c32983 _d32983