Publication: Interwar housing speculation and rent profiteering in colonial Calcutta
Interwar housing speculation and rent profiteering in colonial Calcutta
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Bhattacharyya, D. (2016). Interwar housing speculation and rent profiteering in colonial Calcutta. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 36(3), 465–482. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3699007
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Following World War I Presidency towns in British India witnessed a sudden, abnormal rise in housing and rents, resulting in heated debates about the relation between municipal governance, the market, and private capital. By studying this particular moment, Bhattacharyya's article uncovers the emergence of a housing and rent market in Calcutta predicated on notions of housing rights as an outgrowth of worker protest and militancy, on the one hand, and market speculation in land and housing on the other. This tension opened up a space
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- Bhattacharyya, Debjani
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Bhattacharyya, D. (2016). Interwar housing speculation and rent profiteering in colonial Calcutta. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 36(3), 465–482. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3699007
