LEADER 02635nam 2200397 450 001 9910682517803321 005 20230513063542.0 024 7 $a10.14324/111.9781787353237 035 $a(CKB)5580000000527085 035 $a(NjHacI)995580000000527085 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000527085 100 $a20230513d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe wild east $ecriminal political economies in South Asia /$fedited by Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia Michelutti 210 1$aLondon :$cUCL Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) 311 $a1-78735-327-3 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aBusiness enterprises$xCorrupt practices$zIndia 606 $aBusiness enterprises$xCorrupt practices$zBangladesh 615 0$aBusiness enterprises$xCorrupt practices 615 0$aBusiness enterprises$xCorrupt practices 676 $a364.13230954 702 $aHarriss-White$b Barbara 702 $aMichelutti$b Lucia 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910682517803321 996 $aThe wild east$93364812 997 $aUNINA