Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Boxes, figures and tables......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Glossary......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction......Page 19
Technologies of rule, sightings of the state......Page 23
The organization of the book......Page 27
Part I The state and the poor......Page 31
Introduction......Page 33
Differently poor, differently sighted......Page 38
When, why and who?......Page 39
How and where?......Page 48
State and society: embeddedness, scarcity and territoriality......Page 51
Mending the state? Views from outside......Page 57
Exit, Voice and Loyalty......Page 58
Accountability, participation and decentralization......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 63
Introduction......Page 65
From charity to capabilities......Page 69
Provider, protector and promoter......Page 72
Economy, demography, poverty......Page 76
Garibi Hatao......Page 82
Democratizing poverty......Page 89
Empowering the poor......Page 95
Conclusion......Page 100
Part II The everyday state and society......Page 103
Introduction......Page 105
Experiencing poverty: livelihoods, inequality and social networks......Page 108
Income poverty and livelihoods......Page 111
Education and capabilities......Page 114
The non-state social networks of the poor......Page 120
Seeing the state from the villages......Page 126
Geographies of the state......Page 127
Challenging the Mukhiya in Murhu......Page 132
The politicized poor in Sahar......Page 134
The power of the panchayats in Debra......Page 135
Conclusions......Page 137
Introduction......Page 139
Pathways to participation......Page 141
Rates of participation......Page 144
The Employment Assurance Scheme......Page 145
Participatory school management......Page 146
Information circulation......Page 149
Managing projects and project management......Page 152
Costs and benefits......Page 158
The tyranny of participation?......Page 164
Introduction......Page 169
Good governance......Page 171
Good governance in India......Page 175
Embedded officials and the Employment Assurance Scheme......Page 176
Counting on development? Politicians and the rural poor......Page 186
Educating the state......Page 194
The politics of good and bad governance......Page 201
Introduction......Page 206
The constitution of political society: fixers and leaders......Page 210
Engaging the state: networks of power......Page 217
The price of rule......Page 224
Midnapore: politics as development......Page 225
Vaishali: caste politics and political competition......Page 228
Conclusion......Page 231
Part III The poor and the state......Page 235
Introduction......Page 237
Information circulation and the question of accountability......Page 239
Decentralization: getting closer to the state?......Page 243
Madhya Pradesh......Page 244
Kerala......Page 246
\'I am the state\'......Page 249
Combating the state......Page 255
Damaging the (urban) state......Page 258
Reforming the state......Page 261
Conclusion......Page 264
Post-colonialism and political society......Page 268
Development studies and civil society......Page 273
Spaces of empowerment......Page 280
9 Postscript: development ethics and the ethics of critique......Page 283
Rural self-employment programmes......Page 293
Rural wage employment programmes......Page 294
II Special Area programmes......Page 296
Education......Page 297
Housing and sanitation......Page 298
V Subsidies......Page 299
Appendix 2 The 1999 general election in Hajipur......Page 301
The election looms......Page 302
Big men (and women) and local politics......Page 303
Campaigns, rhetoric, transport......Page 305
Issues for the villagers......Page 307
Election day......Page 308
References......Page 310
Index......Page 332