Power matters : essays on institutions, politics, and society in India / John Harriss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harriss, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--India.

Social classes.

Power (Social sciences).

Politics and culture.

India.

Politics and culture--India.

Power (Social sciences)--India.

Physical Description:

xii, 314 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This volume brings together ten essays from the author's enduring work on the different dimensions of power in Indian society. It traces how issues of political and institutional power explain economic change, resource management and poverty, inequality and governance, social capital, and civil society.

Contents:

1. 'Borderlands of economics' : institutions, politics and culture in the explanation of economic change

2. Making out on limited resources

3. Why poor people stay poor in rural south India

4. Rural inequality matters : constraints on growth linkages from agriculture

5. Between economism and post-modernism : reflections on research on 'agrarian change' in India

6. 'Widening the radius of trust' : ethnographic explorations of trust and Indian business

7. For an anthropology of the modern Indian state

8. Do political regimes matter? Poverty reduction and regime differences across India

9. Public action and the dialectics of decentralization : against the myth of social capital as 'the missing link in development'

10. 'Politics is a dirty river' : But is there a 'new politics' of civil society? : Perspectives from global cities of India and Latin America

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-294) and index.

ISBN:

9780195678970

0195678974

OCLC:

76917053

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