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1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The criminal economics and politics of black coal in Jharkhand, 2014; 2. Jharia's century-old fire kept ablaze by crime and politics; 3. Sand and the politics of plunder in Tamil Nadu, India; 4. Himalayan 'hydro-criminality'? Dams, development and politics in Arunachal Pradesh, India; 5. Crime in the air: spectrum markets and the telecommunications sector in India; 6. The inter-state criminal life of sand and oil in North India |
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7. 'Red sanders mafia' in South India: violence, electoral democracy and labour8. The 'land and real estate mafia', West Bengal, East India; 9. Politics, capital and land grabs in Punjab, India; 10. The politics of contracting in provincial Bangladesh; 11. Putting out the Baldia factory fire: how the trial of Karachi's industrial capitalism did not happen; Epilogue South Asian criminal economies; Appendix Laws alleged or established to have been broken -- with main offenders; Glossary; Index |
| Summary |
The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour in South Asia. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Commercial crimes -- India.
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Commercial crimes. |
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India. |
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Commercial crimes -- Pakistan.
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Pakistan. |
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Commercial crimes -- Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh. |
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- India.
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices. |
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Business enterprises. |
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- Pakistan.
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- Bangladesh.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Harriss-White, Barbara, 1946- editor.
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Michelutti, Lucia, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The wild east : criminal political economies in South Asia / edited by Barbara Harriss-White and Lucia Michelutti. London : UCL Press, [2019] 9781787353251 |
| ISBN |
9781787353237 (pdf) |
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1787353230 |
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9781787353268 (epub) |
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1787353265 |
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9781787353244 (paperback) |
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9781787353251 (hardcover) |
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1787353257 |
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1787353249 |
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9781787353275 |
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1787353273 |
| Standard No. |
10.14324/111.9781787353237 |
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