The wild east : criminal political economies in South Asia / edited by Barbara Harriss-White and Lucia Michelutti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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

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

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.

English.

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