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.
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