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

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Harriss, John

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TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: xii, 314 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

0195678974

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DDC classification:

306.20954 HAR/P

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.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section				306.20954 HAR/P (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Checked out		13/01/2027	P03233

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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.

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