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Articolo | Unheard Voices: The Migrant Workers of Mumbai’s Cotton Mills and Narayan Surve’s Poetic Legacy
Unheard Voices: The Migrant Workers of Mumbai’s Cotton Mills and Narayan Surve’s Poetic Legacy
- Harjot Banga - Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia - email
Abstract
Migrants play a key role in Mumbai’s dynamics, shaping its identity through cultural fusion. This paper shifts focus from the city’s colonial legacy and Dharavi to overlooked cotton mill workers, mostly migrants from nearby villages. Recruited by ‘jobbers’ and housed in cramped chawls, their lives mirrored subaltern destitution. Narayan Surve, an orphan poet raised by mill workers, captures their struggles in his Marxist poetry, giving voice to the marginalised and highlighting the socio-economic and cultural challenges faced by Mumbai’s migrant labourers.
Presentato: 02 Luglio 2024 | Accettato: 30 Settembre 2024 | Pubblicato 09 Dicembre 2024 | Lingua: en
Keywords Narayan Surve • Urban identity • Subaltern studies • Mumbai migrants • Cotton mill workers
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Unheard Voices: The Migrant Workers of Mumbai’s Cotton Mills and Narayan Surve’s Poetic Legacy |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Migrants play a key role in Mumbai’s dynamics, shaping its identity through cultural fusion. This paper shifts focus from the city’s colonial legacy and Dharavi to overlooked cotton mill workers, mostly migrants from nearby villages. Recruited by ‘jobbers’ and housed in cramped chawls, their lives mirrored subaltern destitution. Narayan Surve, an orphan poet raised by mill workers, captures their struggles in his Marxist poetry, giving voice to the marginalised and highlighting the socio-economic and cultural challenges faced by Mumbai’s migrant labourers. |
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Il Tolomeo |
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Vol. 26 | Dicembre 2024 |
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2024-12-09 |
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2024-09-30 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2024/01/007 |
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Cotton mill workers |
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dc.subject |
Mumbai migrants |
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Narayan Surve |
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Subaltern studies |
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Urban identity |
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