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This article is about the way in which experts claim that art, creativity, and heritage can help with 'development' in India, but that they refuse to address underlying problems of caste, class, religious, and colonial violence.
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This is important because creativity and heritage are becoming extremely central to the way in which urban development policy is proceeding in India--it is the next 'big idea' that experts claim will solve India's development problems.
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This page is a summary of: Sentimental Capitalism in Contemporary India: Art, Heritage, and Development in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Antipode, June 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12103.
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