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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction: “The Real Show”
  9. Interlude I: Mediating “Slum”
  10. 1. Cash: “You Can’t Buy a Vote”
  11. Interlude II: South Bombay
  12. 2. Natak: “The Size of the Public Will Be the Size of the Image”
  13. 3. Believe: “What’s a Show and What’s a Lie”
  14. Interlude III: Places of Protest
  15. 4. Kaaghaz: “We Aren’t Hindustani by Paper; We’re Hindustani by Blood”
  16. 5. Politics: “The Protests Were Becoming Politicized”
  17. Conclusion: Drama of Democracy
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. Author Biography

Abbreviations

AIMIM
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (All India Council for Unity of Muslims)
APCR
Association for Protection of Civil Rights
BAC
Bombay Aman Committee
BJP
Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People’s Party)
BMC
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
BMMA
Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (Indian Muslim Women’s Movement)
CAA
Citizenship Amendment Act
HBKL
Hum Bharat ke Log (We the People of India)
IMSD
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy
JIH
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
JNU
Jawaharlal Nehru University
MHADA
Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority
MLA
Member of Legislative Assembly
MNS
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
MP
Member of Parliament
NCP
National Congress Party
NGO
Nongovernmental organization
NPR
National Population Registry
NRC
National Registry of Citizens
RPI
Republican Party of India
RSS
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
RTI
Right to Information
SRA
Slum Rehabilitation Authority

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The lyrics from “Yeh jo Public Hai” are copyright Anand Bakshi and reprinted with permission.

Portions of chapter 1 were originally published as “‘You Can’t Buy a Vote’: Meanings of Money in a Mumbai Election,” American Ethnologist 41, no. 4 (2014): 617–34, https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12101; copyright 2014 by the American Anthropological Association.

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