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Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. This work expands the field of poverty studies by relating it to issues of gender.Roy, Ananya is the author of 'City Requiem, Calcutta Gender and the Politics of Poverty', published 2002 under ISBN 9780816639335 and ISBN 0816639337.
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