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Everyday State and Politics in India : Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi.

"The Kalahandi district in the state of Odisha in Eastern India is regarded as an iconic region of underdevelopment, and is often perceived to be the 'Somalia' of the country. It is also the site of a large number of governmental interventions. This book focuses on processes of govern...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Routray, Sailen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Colección:Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Framing Kalahandi as an iconic backward district
  • Kalahandi: an introduction
  • Emergence of Kalahandi as a metaphor for hunger and destitution
  • The narrative framings of Kalahandi
  • Academic narratives on Kalahandi
  • Poetry from Kalahandi
  • Literary prose from Kalahandi: memoirs and novels
  • Governmental literature on Kalahandi: the case of Kala Jharan
  • Kalahandi and the developmental state
  • ConclusionNotes
  • References
  • 2. Understanding state-led development: emergence of the mission mode
  • Five stories from the field
  • Interrogating the new developmental state
  • Passive revolution: a dominant theoretical paradigm
  • Passive revolution, state, and political society in India
  • Interrogating passive revolution
  • Understanding changes in the form of the state in India
  • Emergence of the mission mode of state-fabrication in India
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3. â#x80;#x98;The government has become the biggest NGO these daysâ#x80;#x99
  • IntroductionMission mode of statecraft and five tactics of state-fabrication
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4. Everyday practices of GOs and NGOs
  • GOs and NGOs: convergence in practice
  • Mission mode of state-fabrication and the emergence of the social
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5. The vernacular domain of toutary
  • Introduction
  • The increasing trend of toutary
  • The social domain of toutary
  • Of touts and touters
  • Toutary and other domains of sociality
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Impasse in thinking about development: from politics to the stateThe promise of ethnography: studying the everyday state
  • Understanding the everyday state: interrogating political society
  • Tactics of state-fabrication in the mission mode: processes and effects
  • Emergence of the â#x80;#x98;socialâ#x80;#x99;: political society versus toutary
  • Looking back, looking forward: Kalahandi now, Kalahandi then
  • Note
  • References
  • Appendix I: A note on Odisha Watershed Development Mission (OWDM)
  • Appendix II: A Note on District Watershed Mission (DWM), Kalahandi
  • Appendix III: A note on Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project (WORLP)Appendix IV: A demographic profile of Kalahandi
  • Appendix V: Developmental indicators for Kalahandi
  • Appendix VI: Profiles of presidents and secretaries of the ten committees of the NGO PIA
  • Appendix VII: Comparison between the two villages under the GO and NGO PIAs