Cambridge Studies in Law and Society - Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India

Paper Tiger shifts the debate on state failure and opens up new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Glossary; Acronyms; Prologue; Introduction; 1. A remote town: the paper state; 2. The state life of law; 3. The material production of transparency; 4. The letter of the state; 5. Meeting one another: paper tiger?; 6. The reign of terror of the big cat; Conclusion: the state as a paper tiger; References; Index.

About the author

Nayanika Mathur is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Summary

Through a meticulous detailing of the everyday life of development bureaucracy on the Himalayan borderland, Paper Tiger shifts the frames of the debate on state failure and opens up a refreshingly new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state.

Product details

• Authors: Nayanika Mathur, Nayanika (University of Cambridge) Mathur, Mathur Nayanika
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107106970
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10697-0
• No. of pages: 203
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Black & Asian Studies, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General