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Sanjeev Routray. The Right to be Counted. The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi. [South Asia in Motion.] Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 2022. xviii, 347 pp. Ill. $90.00. (Paper, E-book: $30.00.)

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Sanjeev Routray. The Right to be Counted. The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi. [South Asia in Motion.] Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 2022. xviii, 347 pp. Ill. $90.00. (Paper, E-book: $30.00.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2025

Ursula Rao
Ursula Rao*
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Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
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International Review of Social History , Volume 70 , Issue 3 , December 2025 , pp. 560 - 564
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References

1 Partha Chatterjee, The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (New York, 2004).

2 Cf. Timothy Mitchell, “The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics”, The American Political Science Review, 85:1 (1991), pp. 77–96.

3 Lisa Mitchell, Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections (Durham, NC, 2023).

4 Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley, CA, 1984).