Paper tiger : law, bureaucracy and the developmental state in Himalayan India /

Paper tiger : law, bureaucracy and the developmental state in Himalayan India /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mathur, Nayanika, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in law and society Cambridge studies in law and society.
Subject:	National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (India) India. -- Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Rural development -- Government policy -- India -- Chamoli District. Wildlife conservation -- Government policy -- India -- Chamoli District. Bureaucracy -- India -- Chamoli District. Chamoli District (India) -- Politics and government.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12599459

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ISBN:	9781316227367 (ebook) 9781107106970 (hardback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Summary:	A big cat overthrows the Indian state and establishes a reign of terror over the residents of a Himalayan town. A welfare legislation aimed at providing employment and commanding a huge budget becomes 'unimplementable' in a region bedeviled by high levels of poverty and unemployment. Paper Tiger provides a lively ethnographic account of how such seemingly bizarre scenarios come to be in contemporary India. Based on eighteen months of intensive fieldwork, this book presents a unique explanation for why and how progressive laws can do what they do and not, ever-so-often, what they are supposed to do. It reveals the double-edged effects of the reforms that have been ushered in by the post-liberalization Indian state, particularly the effort to render itself more transparent and accountable. Through a meticulous detailing of everyday bureaucratic life on the Himalayan borderland, Paper Tiger makes an argument for shifting the very frames of thought through which we apprehend the workings of the developmental Indian state.
Other form:	Print version: 9781107106970

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Summary:	A big cat overthrows the Indian state and establishes a reign of terror over the residents of a Himalayan town. A welfare legislation aimed at providing employment and commanding a huge budget becomes 'unimplementable' in a region bedeviled by high levels of poverty and unemployment. Paper Tiger provides a lively ethnographic account of how such seemingly bizarre scenarios come to be in contemporary India. Based on eighteen months of intensive fieldwork, this book presents a unique explanation for why and how progressive laws can do what they do and not, ever-so-often, what they are supposed to do. It reveals the double-edged effects of the reforms that have been ushered in by the post-liberalization Indian state, particularly the effort to render itself more transparent and accountable. Through a meticulous detailing of everyday bureaucratic life on the Himalayan borderland, Paper Tiger makes an argument for shifting the very frames of thought through which we apprehend the workings of the developmental Indian state.
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:	9781316227367 9781107106970