Corruption as power: Caste and the political imagination of the postcolonial state

American Ethnologist

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-85

  Witsoe, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

caste; Bihar ; corruption; India; politics; postcolonial; the state

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551508237     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01293.x     Document Type: Article

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