Red tape bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India

Gupta, Akhil 1959-

Red tape bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India - New Delhi Orient BlackSwan 2012 - xiii,368p. 24 cm. - A John Hope Franklin Center book .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-354) and index.

Poverty as biopolitics -- "The state" and the politics of poverty -- Corruption, politics, and the imagined state -- Narratives of corruption -- "Let the paper train run" : bureaucratic writing as state practice -- Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy -- Population and neoliberal governmentality.

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Poverty--Government policy--India.
Public welfare--India.
Political corruption--India.
Bureaucracy--India.

HC440.P6 / G858 2012

302.350954 / GU-R

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