Red Tape Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

Name: Red Tape Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India
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ISBN: 9780822351108

ISBN-10: 0822351102

ISBN-13: 9780822351108

Edition: 2012

Authors: Akhil Gupta

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Red Tapepresents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous peoples. Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project. Nor is the state indifferent to the plight of the poor; it sponsors many poverty amelioration programs.Gupta conducted ethnographic research among officials…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 7/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English