num_pages: 334
description: 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.
language: English
title: Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India
titlecomplete: Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India (Contemporary South Asia, Series Number 10)
ratings_count: 7
series: Contemporary South Asia
publisher: Cambridge University Press