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UNINA9910682517803321 |
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Titolo |
The wild east : criminal political economies in South Asia / / edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia Michelutti |
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London : , : UCL Press, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Business enterprises - Corrupt practices - India |
Business enterprises - Corrupt practices - Bangladesh |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The criminal economics and politics of black coal in Jharkhand, 2014 -- 2. Jharia's century-old fire kept ablaze by crime and politics -- 3. Sand and the politics of plunder in Tamil Nadu, India -- 4. Himalayan 'hydro-criminality'? Dams, development and politics in Arunachal Pradesh, India -- 5. Crime in the air: spectrum markets and the telecommunications sector in India -- 6. The inter-state criminal life of sand and oil in North India 7. 'Red sanders mafia' in South India: violence, electoral democracy and labour -- 8. The 'land and real estate mafia', West Bengal, East India -- 9. Politics, capital and land grabs in Punjab, India -- 10. The politics of contracting in provincial Bangladesh -- 11. Putting out the Baldia factory fire: how the trial of Karachi's industrial capitalism did not happen -- Epilogue South Asian criminal economies -- Appendix Laws alleged or established to have been broken - with main offenders -- Glossary -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour in South Asia. |
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