Paper Tiger
Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India
Published on 1. January 2015
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-1-107-10697-0 (ISBN)
Description
Paper Tiger shifts the debate on state failure and opens up new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state.
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Nayanika Mathur is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
Content
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.