The Everyday State and Society in Modern India - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1850654719 ISBN 13: 9781850654711

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This work focuses on how the large, amorphous and impersonal Indian State affects the everyday lives of its citizens. It argues that state and society merge in the daily lives of most Indians, and the boundary between them is blurred and negotiable according to social context and position. The contibutors adopt the postion, contary to that of many others, that most Indians are able actively to comprehend and use the institutions of the state for their own purposes, rather than being merely its passive victims. Each chapter is based on empirical research and collectively they cover a wide range of anthropological and sociological material on modern India, from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in the north, Maharashtra in the west, West Bengal in the esat, and Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the south. The book examines issues such as riot control, the Emergency, corruption irrigation, rural activism and education.

About this title

About the Author:

C. J. Fuller is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India (Princeton University Press) and Servants of the Goddess: The Priests of a South Indian Temple (Cambridge University Press). Veronique Benei is a researcher at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and Research Fellow in Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She is the author of La dot en Inde: un fleau social? Socio-anthropologie du mariage au Maharashtra(Karthala).

About this edition

• Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1850654719
• ISBN 13: 9781850654711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Fuller C. J., Benei Veronique