Paper Tiger : Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India
Paper Tiger shifts the debate on state failure and opens up new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2015
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| Schlagworte: | Wildlife conservation Bureaucracy Chamoli District (India) Rural development Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Paper Tiger shifts the debate on state failure and opens up new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Glossary -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- The paper state -- The law and its interpretation(s) -- Neoliberals anti-NREGA and NREGA anti-neoliberalism? -- The vexedness of implementation -- Sarkar and the everyday -- An ethnography of sarkar -- Paper Tiger as it unfolds -- Endnotes -- 1: A Remote Town -- The Pahar -- The hill station versus the mountain town -- Living in the lake: Residing 'above' -- 'Life is elsewhere' -- Escaping Gopeshwar -- The incessant production of remoteness -- Endnotes -- The Paper State -- 2: The State Life of Law -- Sarkari zindagi or state-life -- Show it to the state -- The village where India ends -- The register of demands -- The law is a spectre -- Endnotes -- 3: The Material Production of Transparency -- The ogre of corruption -- Implementing a transparency-inducing law -- The crisis of un-implementability -- The revolutionary document -- Endnotes -- 4: The Letter of the State -- Writing and lettering -- Introductory letters -- The clarificatory letter -- The translated letter -- The procedural letter -- The photocopied letter/the letter as protective shield -- The fantastical letter -- The forgotten letter -- Endnotes -- 5: Meeting One Another -- The tamasha of the BDCs -- The unbearable silence of the BDOs -- 'On paper' doublethink -- Becoming sarkari -- The affect of sarkar -- Endnotes -- Paper Tiger? -- 6: The Reign of Terror of the Big Cat -- Bureaucratic times -- 'Saving' big cats -- The reign of terror -- The sleeping state -- The government of big cats -- 'Anything might happen' -- The end of the terror -- Endnotes -- Conclusion: The State as a Paper Tiger -- References -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781316570210 1316570215 9781107106970 1107106974 |