Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India: Society and the State, 1930s - 1960s Contributor(s): Gould, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415748771 ISBN-13: 9780415748773 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Political Science - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
Dewey: 364.132 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India. The author moves away from assumptions that the state can primarily be associated with the top levels of government, and looks at citizens' approaches to local level bureaucracies and police. The central argument of the book is that deeply 'institutionalised' corruption in India could only have come about through the exercise of particular long term customs of interaction between agencies of the state - government servants and police, and their interactions with local politicians. Because the social hierarchies that condition such interactions are complicated by individual and family connections to state employment, periods of traumatic state transformation lead to a reconfiguration in the meaning of corruption in the local state. Based on principal primary sources and extensive field interviews, this book will be of interest to academics working on political science and Indian and South Asian history. |