Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project.

Whatever its faults, the Indian bureaucracy cannot be accused of bias when it comes to confounding those who have to deal with it. Veteran insiders who return t

Paper Tiger shifts the debate on state failure and opens up new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state.

The Indian bureaucracy provides the framework that ensures the successful running of a democratic country, continuing the heritage of the Indian Civil Service d

Bureaucratic Archaeology is a multi-faceted ethnography of quotidian practices of archaeology, bureaucracy and science in postcolonial India, concentrating on t