Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India

Contemporary South Asia

by Stuart Corbridge, Glyn Williams, Manoj Srivastava

Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state? This book considers the Indian example where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by encounters staged at the local level, and are also informed by ideas circulated by the government and the broader development community. Drawing extensively on fieldwork conducted in eastern India, the authors review a series of key debates in development studies on participation, good governance, and the structuring of political society in South Asia.

334 pages, Paperback

First published September 29, 2001

Reviews

[Ankit Kumar]

based of very grounded research. If you read it during your fieldwork in India, you could look at things around you and say,"oh! its the same as in the book."