The Right to Be Counted - 9781503630840

The Right to Be CountedThe Urban Poorand the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi\nAuthor(s): Sanjeev Routray\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503630840, 978-1503630840\nSynopsis\nIn the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over [url] million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are availablebut exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conduct.