Photo pass for occupied land and huts in India
by Varun Patil
Occupation of public land by urban poor for housing and livelihood has a long history in Modern twentieth century in Mumbai, the financial capital of India. Public land is a specific historical land category introduced by the colonial state to indicate land ownership of state. After independence from the British colonial rule in 1947, the local Municipal authorities, conditioned on modern planning logics of city governance, successfully carried out large scale evictions of urban poor neighbourhoods and resettlement on outskirts.
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