Notes
1 Calcutta is the colonial name of the city, which was officially changed to Kolkata in 2001. The author retains the colonial name as the majority of the events described in the book take place before the name change.
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Saanchi Saxena
Saanchi Saxena is a PhD candidate in urban geography at DIST (Interuniversity Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning), Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her doctoral project is an ethnography of women street vendors in Mumbai, focusing on spatial practices of vending, situated negotiations of urban policies, and the co-constitution of caste, gender, and urban space. Email: [email protected]