The wild east : : criminal political economies in South Asia / / edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia Michelutti.
The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour in South Asia.
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : UCL Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The criminal economics and politics of black coal in Jharkhand, 2014
- 2. Jharia's century-old fire kept ablaze by crime and politics
- 3. Sand and the politics of plunder in Tamil Nadu, India
- 4. Himalayan 'hydro-criminality'? Dams, development and politics in Arunachal Pradesh, India
- 5. Crime in the air: spectrum markets and the telecommunications sector in India
- 6. The inter-state criminal life of sand and oil in North India 7. 'Red sanders mafia' in South India: violence, electoral democracy and labour
- 8. The 'land and real estate mafia', West Bengal, East India
- 9. Politics, capital and land grabs in Punjab, India
- 10. The politics of contracting in provincial Bangladesh
- 11. Putting out the Baldia factory fire: how the trial of Karachi's industrial capitalism did not happen
- Epilogue South Asian criminal economies
- Appendix Laws alleged or established to have been broken - with main offenders
- Glossary
- Index.