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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.
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1. Introduction 2. Administrative power and public morality: hierarchy and corruption in late colonial and ealry independent UP 3. Religion, caste and government servant recruitment 1920s - 1950s 4. Imagining corruption: languages and symbolism in administrative and police power in north India 5. The rise of anti-corruption: government servants and 'citizens', 1940 - 1952 6. The bureaucracy, police and political change: maintaining the 'steel frame' in the 1950s and 1960s 7. Conclusion
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William Gould is Senior Lecturer in Indian History at the University of Leeds, UK. His research interests include Hindu nationalism, the history of 'communalism' and Gandhian nationalism, and the transformation of the Indian state and bureaucracy between 1930 and the present. He is the author of Hindu nationalism and the language of politics in late colonial India (2004).
