Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi

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Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi

This paper explores the ambivalent feelings towards the Government of India produced in one of the government’s own employees. In establishing the Delhi Improvement Trust in the 1930s, Arthur Parke Hume had to battle against governmental cost cutting in an attempt to secure the rehousing of slum evi...

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Main Author:	Stephen, Legg
Format:	Article
Published:	Pion 2008
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1873/

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