Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi

ISBN-13: 9780367887254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 122 str.

Sailen Routray

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of abbreviations  Preface  Acknowledgements  1. Framing Kalahandi as an Iconic Backward District  2. Understanding State-Led Development: Emergence of the Mission Mode  3. ‘The Government Has Become the Biggest NGO These Days’  4. Everyday Practices of GOs and NGOs  5. The Vernacular Domain of Toutary  6. Conclusion  Appendices

O autorze

Sailen Routray is a researcher, writer and translator. His interests lie in the areas of anthropology of development, anthropology of the everyday state, culinary cultures, contemporary history of Odisha, and sociology of literature. He is the managing editor of Anwesha, an Odia quarterly of politics, culture and ideas. He currently serves as the Director of Centre for Human Sciences Bhubaneswar (CHSB), India.