The Kalahandi district in the state of Odisha in Eastern India is
regarded as an iconic region of underdevelopment, and is often
perceived to be the 'Somalia' of the country. It is also the site
of a large number of governmental interventions. This book focuses
on processes of governance in Odisha, and provides an ethnographic
account of the changing forms of governmental actions in Kalahandi
by analysing the implementation of WORLP (Western Orissa Rural
Livelihoods Project), a new generation watershed development
project. The book also shows the morphings of the forms of the
state on the ground, and the ways in which it is perceived by the
agents and objects of statist actions. Arguing that changes in the
institutions and practices of the state in India over the last
three decades are better understood through the conceptualisation
of state-fabrication, rather than of state-formation, the author
describes the governmental tactics related to emergent modes of
governmental action. The book identifies an increasing convergence
in the everyday practices of governmental and non-governmental
organisations, and the growth of 'the social' as a terrain and
object of governmental actions, as two important effects of the
process of deployment of these tactics. It argues that the
vernacular sphere of toutary is a key domain of sociality that
frames the perceptions and actions of people related to the state
in Odisha. As a domain, toutary is populated by social agents,
called touters; toutary can be understood as the interstitial zone
between state and society shaped by the increasing penetration by
the state into society through social technologies. By providing an
alternative analysis of state and politics in India, this book adds
to the literature surrounding the everyday state by illuminating
recent changes in state-society relations. It will be of interest
to academics in the field of Political Science, Public Policy,
Development Studies, Social Anthropology/Sociology, Social Work,
and South Asian studies.
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