The wild east : criminal political economies in South Asia / edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia Michelutti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harriss-White, Barbara, editor.

Michelutti, Lucia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business enterprises--Corrupt practices--India.

Business enterprises.

Business enterprises--Corrupt practices--Bangladesh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2019.

Summary:

The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour in South Asia.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of boxes

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The criminal economics and politics of black coal in Jharkhand, 2014

2. Jharia's century-old fire kept ablaze by crime and politics

3. Sand and the politics of plunder in Tamil Nadu, India

4. Himalayan 'hydro-criminality'? Dams, development and politics in Arunachal Pradesh, India

5. Crime in the air: spectrum markets and the telecommunications sector in India

6. The inter-state criminal life of sand and oil in North India 7. 'Red sanders mafia' in South India: violence, electoral democracy and labour

8. The 'land and real estate mafia', West Bengal, East India

9. Politics, capital and land grabs in Punjab, India

10. The politics of contracting in provincial Bangladesh

11. Putting out the Baldia factory fire: how the trial of Karachi's industrial capitalism did not happen

Epilogue South Asian criminal economies

Appendix Laws alleged or established to have been broken - with main offenders

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

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