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Poverty is simultaneously erased in the imaginations of India and framed as a salient marker in elite discourses imagining India. In multiple elite narratives, the poor are erased from the discursive space, with an overarching emphasis on urban technology-driven solutions. In these instances, the erasure of the poor is carried out through the omission of poverty as a framework in relationship to specific narratives of imagination.
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Dutta, M.J. (2017). The Poor, the Rural and the Margins. In: Imagining India in Discourse. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 14. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3051-2_7
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