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

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 11/16/2020).
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 labour8. 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
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.
Language English.
Subject Commercial crimes -- India.
Commercial crimes -- Pakistan.
Commercial crimes -- Bangladesh.
Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- India.
Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- Pakistan.
Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- Bangladesh.
Infractions économiques -- Inde.
Infractions économiques -- Pkistn.
Infractions économiques -- Bangladesh.
Entreprises -- Pratiques déloyales -- Inde.
Entreprises -- Pratiques déloyales -- Pkistn.
Entreprises -- Pratiques déloyales -- Bangladesh.
Anthropology.
Crime & criminology.
Political science & theory.
Political structure & processes.
Political parties.
Political control & freedoms.
Political corruption.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices
Commercial crimes
Bangladesh
India
Pakistan
Added Author Harriss-White, Barbara, 1946- editor.
Michelutti, Lucia, editor.
Other Form: Print version: The wild east : criminal political economies in South Asia / edited by Barbara Harriss-White and Lucia Michelutti. London : UCL Press, [2019] 9781787353251
ISBN 9781787353237 (pdf)
1787353230
9781787353268 (epub)
1787353265
9781787353251 (hc)
9781787353244 (pbk)
1787353257
1787353249
9781787353275
1787353273
Standard No. 10.14324/111.9781787353237 doi
UKMGB 019513411
AU@ 000068187796

 
    
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