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