Dangerous sex, invisible labor : sex work and the law in India / by Kotiswaran, Prabha

Table of Contents: “…Dangerous sex, invisible labor : an introduction -- Revisiting the material : recasting the sex work debates -- Theorizing the lumpen proletariat : a genealogy of materialist feminism on sex work -- Not on the lord's agenda : the traveling sex workers of Tirupati -- Born unto brothels : sex work in a Kolkata red-light area -- Regulating sex markets : the paradoxical life of the law -- Toward a postcolonial materialist feminist theory of sex work.…”
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City of strangers : Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain / by Gardner, Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states -- Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain -- Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat -- Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite -- The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community -- Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere -- The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state -- Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf.…”
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The untouchables : subordination, poverty, and the state in modern India / by Mendelsohn, Oliver

Table of Contents: “…-- The question of the 'Harijan atrocity' -- Religion, politics and the Untouchables from the nineteenth century to 1956 -- Public policy I : adverse discrimination and compensatory discrimination -- Public policy II : the anti-poverty programs -- The new Untouchables proletariat : a case study of the Faridabad stone quarries -- Untouchable politics and Untouchable politicians since 1956 -- The question of reservation : the lives and careers of some scheduled caste MPs and MLAs -- Subordiantion, poverty and the state in modern India.…”
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