02635nam 2200397 450 991068251780332120230513063542.010.14324/111.9781787353237(CKB)5580000000527085(NjHacI)995580000000527085(EXLCZ)99558000000052708520230513d2019 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe wild east criminal political economies in South Asia /edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia MicheluttiLondon :UCL Press,2019.1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages)1-78735-327-3 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.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.Business enterprisesCorrupt practicesIndiaBusiness enterprisesCorrupt practicesBangladeshBusiness enterprisesCorrupt practicesBusiness enterprisesCorrupt practices364.13230954Harriss-White BarbaraMichelutti LuciaNjHacINjHaclBOOK9910682517803321The wild east3364812UNINA