Everyday corruption and the political mediation of the Indian State: An ethnographic exploration of brokers in Bihar

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 47-54

  Witsoe, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

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