Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India - Society and the State, 1930s - 1960s (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in South Asian History
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2011
Authors:	William Gould
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-74877-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	0-415-74877-1
Barcode:	9780415748773

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