Bureaucracy, community and influence in India : society and the state, 1930s-1960s / / William Gould
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| Autore: |
Gould William <1973-, >
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| Titolo: |
Bureaucracy, community and influence in India : society and the state, 1930s-1960s / / William Gould
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| Pubblicazione: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
| Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (232 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 306.20954/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Corruption - India - Uttar Pradesh |
| Political corruption - India - Uttar Pradesh | |
| Bureaucracy - India - Uttar Pradesh | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Uttar Pradesh (India) Politics and government |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Administrative power and public morality : hierarchy and corruption in late colonial and early independent UP -- Religion, caste, and government servant recruitment, 1920s-1950s -- Imagining corruption : languages and symbolism in administrative and police power in north India -- The rise of anti-corruption : government servants and 'citizens', 1940-1952 -- The bureaucracy, police, and political change : maintaining the 'steel frame' in the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bureaucracy, community and influence in India |
| ISBN: | 1-136-92679-8 |
| 1-136-92680-1 | |
| 1-283-03866-8 | |
| 9786613038661 | |
| 0-203-84538-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814449403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge studies in South Asian history ; ; 11.