Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India by Akhil Gupta

Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

Akhil Gupta

392 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced

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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 ...

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