Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India: Society and the State, 1930s

Description: Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India by William Gould This work offers an approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through everyday citizen interactions with the state. It examines the histories of corruption in the province of Uttar Pradesh in India, the largest multi-ethnic/democratic country in the world. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography William Gould is Senior Lecturer in Indian History at the University of Leeds, UK. His research interests include Hindu nationalism, the history of communalism and Gandhian nationalism, and the transformation of the Indian state and bureaucracy between 1930 and the present. He is the author of Hindu nationalism and the language of politics in late colonial India (2004). Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Administrative power and public morality: hierarchy and corruption in late colonial and ealry independent UP 3. Religion, caste and government servant recruitment 1920s - 1950s 4. Imagining corruption: languages and symbolism in administrative and police power in north India 5. The rise of anti-corruption: government servants and citizens, 1940 - 1952 6. The bureaucracy, police and political change: maintaining the steel frame in the 1950s and 1960s 7. Conclusion Review "Gould adds to his oeuvre with another well-researched, well-reasoned study on a perennial topic in India: influence or corruption... A superb and important study useful for understanding India then and now. Summing Up: Essential. Most levels/libraries." - R. D. Long, CHOICE (September 2011) Review Quote "Gould adds to his oeuvre with another well-researched, well-reasoned study on a perennial topic in India: influence or corruption... A superb and important study useful for understanding India then and now. Details ISBN0415748771 Author William Gould Short Title BUREAUCRACY COMMUNITY & INFLUE Language English ISBN-10 0415748771 ISBN-13 9780415748773 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-11-11 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Society and the State, 1930s - 1960s Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 364.1323095420904 Birth 1973 Series Routledge Studies in South Asian History UK Release Date 2013-11-11 AU Release Date 2013-11-11 NZ Release Date 2013-11-11 Illustrations 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white Pages 240 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Alternative 9780415776646 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161082818;

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