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028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors _b;7/22,Ansari Road ,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002 _c;1077462 _d;07/06/2018
082			_a302.350954 GUP
100			_aAkhil Gupta
245			_aRed tape _b: bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India _c/Akhil Gupta
260			_aDurham _b: Duke University Press _c, 2012.
300			_axiii, 368 pages _c; 24 cm.
490			_aJohn Hope Franklin Center book.
505			_a Poverty as biopolitics -- The state and the politics of poverty -- Corruption, politics, and the imagined state -- Narratives of corruption -- "Let the train run on paper" : bureaucratic writing as state practice -- Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy -- Population and neoliberal governmentality.
520			_a"Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous peoples. Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project. Nor is the state indifferent to the plight of the poor; it sponsors many poverty amelioration programs.
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_a Social interaction _bPolitical corruption
700			_aAkhil Gupta
942			_cBOOK
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