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Author_Frederic C. Thomas
Balconies
bearers
Betel Nut
Buffalo
Bus Tees
bustee
Bustee Dwellers
Bustee Improvement
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Census
CMDA
community mobilization
Confer
Denser
dwellers
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ethnographic research
Goddess Sitala
Gunny Sacks
Held
horne
Horne Villages
improvement
Informal Sector
informal settlements
jute
Kinsmen
Midday
migration studies
mill
palanquin
People's Welfare Committee
Precinct
Pro Grams
pullers
rickshaw
Rickshaw Pullers
Sidewalk Dwellers
social stratification
Under Cover
urban anthropology
urban poverty dynamics
Ward Councillors
YOung Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781563249815
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation. In this illuminating critique, Thomas investigates the standard solutions - improved housing, increased job creation, and intervention of social services agencies - only to come to the conclusion that such initiatives have little effect on the inherent nature of the problem of poverty. Based on historical and anthropological findings, and the author's visits to the slums of Calcutta, what becomes clear is that even in the midst of great poverty, there is a nobility of character, a vitality of ethnic and cultural ties, and an energy that bring out inventiveness and ingenuity in the lives of the poor. If Calcutta's poverty is not to be an intractable problem, these internal forces must be awakened to generate solutions. Illustrated with stunning photographs, Thomas's reflections provide new insight into an age-old problem.
