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1 Socio-Legal Rev. 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/soclerev1 and id is 1 raw text is: OF MARGINALITY: POVERTY, MIGRATION AND MEMORY IN THE MEGACITY Shail Mayaram* The arte addresses issues of marginalsadion hi the contex of postcolonial migraion to the megadly. Taking De/hi as an cvample, the author oAnesfrst, the nare of Pgradon dntig paridon, and the importance f identiies a central to tht conshtraon of the modern middle class mediated biy a welfare-state, before moving on to examine the pardakr situakion of mgradon in the contet of poerty. Through the &wd stofix of men and women, what the author rehi# calls the anecdota/' mode, she attepts to identif the subalern of the (0y marginahsed at once by the state, its eke dtiviyns and the new global-marke ethic. Using the ricksbaw puller and the baker/wndor as exawples the author traces the malt/e pressures at p4y in the segaa, showing how narmdas of ;lanned' des and the categoritaton of worginal in acadmia and the meia hav impacted these proasses. Howevr, she does notpte Mp hope that the meguity can aso be a plaeeforsubaltern s t aniss and co-Iwd/sbared bistoies. Narratives of workers' lives in Delhi unravel the story of postcolonial population movements and of poverty- An exploration of these opens a window to the constitution of marginality and memory in the megacity. Delhi is but an instance of a much wider universe. The several cities of Dili have been, time and again, shaped by the ethnicities of waves of migrants. The movement of populations has been a constant feature of the historical process. Individuals and groups that were Gujar, Rajput, Turk, Afghan, Mughal, Punjabi, and others came into the city Persons both came and went to the areas we identify today as Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal, Sind, Punjab, from the Hindu Kush region, Tibet, China etc. This continued down to the partition of the subcontinent when refugees from what now became Pakistan significantly reconstituted the ethnic composition and culture of the city as they became established denizens of Delhi. The difference between migration, old and new, has two aspects. Postcolonial migration is characterized by an unprecedented upward mobility, but is also a story of utter deprivation signaling a deepened and absolute poverty and novel sources of violence. The mobility has been for those who have benefited from the welfare-development state. This is a story of the making of the largely Hindu new middle class. After partition Punjabi migrants to the city obtained prize urban land as compensation. This was one of the many ways in which the two new nation states of India and Pakistan mirrored each other fostering the growth of a new Punjabi elite that was Hindu on one side of the border and Muslim on the other, As Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Relief and Rehabilitation and of Home, the Sardar, as Patel was called, ensured that the refugees received adequate support that would enable the development of new commercial spaces in Delhi. South Delhi is a product of the new Indian State's support to dislocated Hindus from Pakistan. Golf Links; Defence Colony, Lajpat Nagar, Greater Kailash etc This was the New New * Senior FElo Centre for the Study of Developing Soctics, Delhi. I

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