Despite the State
Subtitle: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope
Publisher: Context
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Chennai, India
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9788194879015
Copyright date: 2020
First sentence: The inner workings of Amul, India's much-loved milk cooperative, briefly became public in the winter of 2013.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: 1; label: The State That Could Not Pay Salaries
title: 12; label: The State That Wasted Its Iron Ore Boom
title: 42; label: The State Controlled by One Family
title: 69; label: The State That Embraced Messianic Populism
title: 101; label: The Absent State
title: 142; label: The State That Chose Majoritarianism
title: 181; label: Conclusion
title: 216; label: Annexure: The State Riddled with Conflict
title: 230; label: Afterword: V. Geetha
title: 237; label: Notes
title: 251; label: Acknowledgements
title: 286