This book examines how the Indian state is encountered and imagined
in everyday life among a group of urban middle class youth in
Kolkata. Through a detailed and empirically rich ethnographic
engagement with the everyday actions and beliefs of ordinary people
in relation to the Indian State, the book shows how many Indians
regularly loose trust in the institutions that govern them. The
book offers a series of lucid accounts of how people frequently
encounter the state as an agency and a set of institutions that
victimise those who approach it. The result is a crisis of trust in
the state among the urban youth studied by Nielsen. This
undermining of trust in the state, Kenneth Bo Nielsen demonstrates,
has severe consequences not only for the quality of Indian
democracy, but also for everyday social relations. The book will be
of relevance to anthropologists and South Asianists, as well as to
people with an interest in the production and destruction of social
trust.
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