[sustran] rickshaws

[Pascal Desmond]

Hello Colleagues

You are welcome to download Volume 3, Number 3, (1997) of "World 
Transport Policy & Practice". This special issue on Calcutta contains 
an article by Jai Sen 'The Left Alliance and the Unintended City: Is 
a civisilsed transition possible'.
Abstract:
Attempts have been made to ban hand-pulled rickshaws in Calcutta in 
the past. Hand-pulled rickshaws are one of the last vestiges of 
feudalism and imperialism. The lives and livelihoods of those who 
pull the rickshaws are not normally considered because some 
politicians believe that 'the poor must suffer a little for the good 
of the larger community'.
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Kind regards
Pascal Desmond