| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) |
| 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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 11/16/2020) |
| Subject |
Commercial crimes -- India
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Commercial crimes -- Pakistan
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Commercial crimes -- Bangladesh
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- India
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- Pakistan
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- Bangladesh
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Anthropology.
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Crime & criminology.
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Political science & theory.
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Political structure & processes.
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Political parties.
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Political control & freedoms.
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Political corruption.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices
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Commercial crimes
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Bangladesh
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India
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Pakistan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harriss-White, Barbara, 1946- editor.
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Michelutti, Lucia, editor
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| LC no. |
2020426447 |
| ISBN |
9781787353237 |
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1787353230 |
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9781787353268 |
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1787353265 |
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