9781107056084

Patronage as Politics in South Asia Edited by: Anastasia Piliavsky

Size : 150mm x 230mm • Pages : 486pp

• Year : 2014 • Binding : Hardback • ISBN : 9781107056084 • Price ` 895.00 only

This book studies patronage in South Asia to seek a better understanding of the vernacular workings of this political form.

Anastasia Piliavsky is Zukerman Fellow in Social Anthropology, King’s College, Cambridge, UK. She studied Social Anthropology at Boston and Oxford Universities and has previously done research in Russia and Mongolia.

Patronage as Politics in South Asia Edited by: Anastasia Piliavsky CONTENTS:

List of Illustrations • Foreword – John Dunn • Acknowledgements • Introduction – Anastasia Piliavsky • Part I: The Idea of Patronage in South Asia; 1. The Political Economy of Patronage, Preeminence and the State in Chennai – Mattison Mines; 2. The Temporal and the Spiritual, and the So-called Patron–client Relation in the Governance of Inner Asia and Tibet – D. Seyfort Ruegg; 3.

Remnants of Patronage and the Making of Tamil Valaiyar Pasts – Diane Mines; 4. Patronage and State-making in Early Modern Empires in India and Britain – Sumit Guha • Part II: Democracy as Patronage: 5. The Paradox of Patronage and the People’s Sovereignty – David Gilmartin; 6. India’s Demotic Democracy and Its ‘Depravities’ in the Ethnographic Longue Durée Anastasia Piliavsky; 7. ‘Vote Banking’ as Politics in Mumbai – Lisa Björkman; 8. Political Fixers in India’s Patronage Democracy – Ward Berenschot ; 9. Patronage and

Autonomy in India’s Deepening Democracy – Pamela Price, with Dusi Srinivas; 10. Police and Legal Patronage in Northern India – Beatrice Jauregui; 11. Patronage Politics in PostIndependence India – Steven I. Wilkinson • Part III: Prospects and Disappointments: 12.

Kingship without Kings in Northern India – Lucia Michelutti; 13. The Political Bully in Bangladesh – Arild Engelsen Ruud; 14. The Dark Side of Patronage in the Pakistani Punjab – Nicolas Martin; 15. Patronage and Printing Innovation in Fifteenthcentury Tibet – Hildegard Diemberger; 16. The Im(morality) of Mediation and Patronage in South India and the Gulf – Filippo Osella Contributors Bibliography Index

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