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1 online resource (138 pages) |
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Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series |
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Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Framing Kalahandi as an iconic backward district -- Kalahandi: an introduction -- Emergence of Kalahandi as a metaphor for hunger and destitution -- The narrative framings of Kalahandi -- Academic narratives on Kalahandi -- Poetry from Kalahandi -- Literary prose from Kalahandi: memoirs and novels -- Governmental literature on Kalahandi: the case of Kala Jharan -- Kalahandi and the developmental state |
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ConclusionNotes -- References -- 2. Understanding state-led development: emergence of the mission mode -- Five stories from the field -- Interrogating the new developmental state -- Passive revolution: a dominant theoretical paradigm -- Passive revolution, state, and political society in India -- Interrogating passive revolution -- Understanding changes in the form of the state in India -- Emergence of the mission mode of state-fabrication in India -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. â#x80;#x98;The government has become the biggest NGO these daysâ#x80;#x99 |
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IntroductionMission mode of statecraft and five tactics of state-fabrication -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4. Everyday practices of GOs and NGOs -- GOs and NGOs: convergence in practice -- Mission mode of state-fabrication and the emergence of the social -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5. The vernacular domain of toutary -- Introduction -- The increasing trend of toutary -- The social domain of toutary -- Of touts and touters -- Toutary and other domains of sociality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. Conclusion |
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Impasse in thinking about development: from politics to the stateThe promise of ethnography: studying the everyday state -- Understanding the everyday state: interrogating political society -- Tactics of state-fabrication in the mission mode: processes and effects -- Emergence of the â#x80;#x98;socialâ#x80;#x99;: political society versus toutary -- Looking back, looking forward: Kalahandi now, Kalahandi then -- Note -- References -- Appendix I: A note on Odisha Watershed Development Mission (OWDM) -- Appendix II: A Note on District Watershed Mission (DWM), Kalahandi |
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Appendix III: A note on Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project (WORLP)Appendix IV: A demographic profile of Kalahandi -- Appendix V: Developmental indicators for Kalahandi -- Appendix VI: Profiles of presidents and secretaries of the ten committees of the NGO PIA -- Appendix VII: Comparison between the two villages under the GO and NGO PIAs |
| Summary |
"The Kalahandi district in the state of Odisha in Eastern India is regarded as an iconic region of underdevelopment, and is often perceived to be the 'Somalia' of the country. It is also the site of a large number of governmental interventions. This book focuses on processes of governance in Odisha, and provides an ethnographic account of the changing forms of governmental actions in Kalahandi by analysing the implementation of WORLP (Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project), a new generation watershed development project. The book also shows the morphings of the forms of the state on the ground, and the ways in which it is perceived by the agents and objects of statist actions. Arguing that changes in the institutions and practices of the state in India over the last three decades are better understood through the conceptualisation of state-fabrication, rather than of state-formation, the author describes the governmental tactics related to emergent modes of governmental action. The book identifies an increasing convergence in the everyday practices of governmental and non-governmental organisations, and the growth of 'the social' as a terrain and object of governmental actions, as two important effects of the process of deployment of these tactics. It argues that the vernacular sphere of toutary is a key domain of sociality that frames the perceptions and actions of people related to the state in Odisha. As a domain, toutary is populated by social agents, called touters; toutary can be understood as the interstitial zone between state and society shaped by the increasing penetration by the state into society through social technologies. By providing an alternative analysis of state and politics in India, this book adds to the literature surrounding the everyday state by illuminating recent changes in state-society relations. It will be of interest to academics in the field of Political Science, Public Policy, Development Studies, Social Anthropology/Sociology, Social Work, and South Asian studies."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Central-local government relations -- India -- Kalahandi (District)
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Central-local government relations
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Kalahandi (India : District) -- Politics and government
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| Subject |
India -- Kalahandi (District)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351692106 |
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1351692100 |
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