Demolish, delete, deport: Bulldozing workers’ suffrage

Demolish, delete, deport: Bulldozing workers’ suffrage

Who are the residents, and who are the encroachers? Across informal settlements in India’s urban centres, ceaseless demolitions, combined with judicial complicity, have emerged as means of engineering working class populations out of the electoral process. In response, the affected have invoked their suffrage.