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100 _aKumar, Mukesh and Kamath, Lalitha
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245 _aCaste’s quiet role: Urban transformation on Patna’s periphery
260 _aEconomic & Political Weekly
300 _a59(7), Feb 17, 2024: p. 41-47
520 _aThe transformation of agricultural land in the periphery of Patna into the high-value settlement of Rajeev Nagar over 50 years is analysed to show how a coalition of the four privileged Hindu upper castes acts to leverage control over state and civic institutions in order to informally occupy and develop land and achieve its regularisation. Emerging from the Rajeev Nagar experience, we argue that the upper castes are advantaged in urbanisation processes through the refashioning of caste as networks, relations and knowledge. Caste and its social relations are crucial in shaping urban transformation in exclusive and selective ways.- Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/7/special-articles/castes-quiet-role.html
773 _aEconomic & Political Weekly
906 _aSOCIAL PROBLEMS
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