[Urbanstudy] CSH-CPR Urban Workshop Series No. 15

[Arkaja Singh]

Dear All,

Please see below announcement for the CSH-CPR Urban Workshop Series.

Best wishes,
Arkaja



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*Urban Workshop Series *

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Urban transformations and ‘unclean’ occupations:

An ethnography of Delhi’s Muslim butchers

Zarin Ahmad

*Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi*

*3:45 pm**         **Tuesday, 26 April, 2011** *

Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi

On October 28, 2009, the Supreme Court of India ordered the final closure of
the 95- year old Idgah abattoir in Delhi. This was a critical event in the
life and livelihood of the butchers and a range of people involved in the
meat industry. Butchering is a marginal and stigmatized occupation
undergoing major economic, spatial and technological changes. Focusing on
the relocation of the abattoir, this presentation addresses two broad
concerns. The first part documents the class and religious dimensions of a
seemingly secular environment discourse. With the help of ethnographic data,
the second part explains how urban transformations lead to further exclusion
of the community resulting in new and more nuanced forms of urban
marginality.



Zarin Ahmad is a Research Fellow at the Centre de Sciences Humaines New
Delhi. Her present research is on the varied forms of social marginality and
exclusion in India, focusing on the Qureshi Muslim butchers in Delhi. She
has also worked on the Dhadi-Mirasi musicians in Banaras, and the Iraqui
biradri engaged in the leather industry in Kolkata. Her PhD and MPhil in
South Asian Studies, JNU, Delhi focused on refugees and Muslim minorities of
Sri Lanka in the context of the war.



*This is the fifteenth in a series of Urban Workshops planned by the Centre
de Sciences Humaines (CSH), **New Delhi** and Centre for Policy Research
(CPR). These workshops seek to provoke public discussion on issues relating
to the development of the city and try to address all its facets including
its administration, culture, economy, society, and politics. For further
information, please contact: **Marie-Hélène **Zerah at **
marie-helene.zerah at ird.fr or Partha Mukhopadhyay at
partha at cprindia.org<Partha at cprindia.org>
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