Narratives of corruption: Anthropological and fictional accounts of the Indian state

Ethnography

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-34

  Gupta, Akhil ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bureaucracy; corruption; development; elections; everyday practices; narrative; representation; states

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247659934     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138105055663     Document Type: Article

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