Red tape : bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India /
Akhil Gupta.
- Hyderabad : Orient BlackSwan, 2012.
- xiii, 368 p. ; 24 cm.
- A John Hope Franklin Center book .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-354) and index.
Poverty as biopolitics -- "The state" and the politics of poverty -- Corruption, politics, and the imagined state -- Narratives of corruption -- "Let the paper train run" : bureaucratic writing as state practice -- Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy -- Population and neoliberal governmentality.
9788125047209
Poverty--Government policy--India. Public welfare--India. Political corruption--India. Bureaucracy--India.