[sustran] rickshaws
Pascal Desmond
pascal at gn.apc.org
Thu Sep 13 01:20:39 JST 2001
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
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