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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      22 September 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511492211
      9780521834797
      9780521542555
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511492211
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.658kg, 334 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.539kg, 334 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Politics: General Interest, Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations, Economic Development and Growth
      Series:
      Contemporary South Asia (10)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Politics: General Interest, Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations, Economic Development and Growth
    Series:
    Contemporary South Asia (10)
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    Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state, and how are these engagements conducted? This book considers the Indian case where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by a series of encounters that are staged at the local level, and which are also informed by ideas that are circulated by the government and the broader development community. Drawing extensively on fieldwork conducted in eastern India and their broad range of expertise, the authors review a series of key debates in development studies on participation, good governance, and the structuring of political society. They do so with particular reference to the Employment Assurance Scheme and primary education provision. Seeing the State engages with the work of James Scott, James Ferguson and Partha Chatterjee, and offers a new interpretation of the formation of citizenship in South Asia.

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