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Quest for water - Muslims at Mumbai’s periphery [1]

An ethnography of everyday life in Shivaji Nagar, a predominantly Muslim slum locality in Mumbai, illustrates how its "Muslimness" complicates the residents' access to water, a commodified and politicised amenity. The struggles of local Muslims to access water also involve holding the state accountable through localised "mundane" politics at the periphery. The state's inability to address the differential access to water is challenged through locally elected political representatives.

Publication Date: 
21/07/2012
Qudsiya Contractor [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
47
29
61-67
Tags:
Urban Water Supply [4], Minorities [5], Mumbai [6], Politics [7], Water Distribution [8], Political Parties [9]
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