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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A scandal in Jodhpur; What happened to patronage?; Patronage in South Asianist scholarship; Patronage close-up; The moral logic and the conflict within; Patronage as politics; Idols in Westminster; The Idea of Patronage in South Asia; 1 The political economy of patronage, preeminence and the state in Chennai; Clients and patrons: a vignette about social mechanics; Research among castes of the left-hand and right-hand moieties; The public presentation of big-men: Traveling the street |
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Patronage and Tamil generosityLocating the roles of the institutional big-man; Arenas of preeminence in the 19th and 20th centuries: Temples and government honours; The institutional big-man at the end of the 20th century; Temples and preeminence among left-hand castes; Conclusion; 2 The temporal and the spiritual, and the so-called patron-client relation in the governance of Inner Asia and Tibet; 3 Remnants of patronage and the making of Tamil Valaiyar pasts; Ambivalent clients; Fleeing and settling; Indexical density; What happened here?; Your time will come; Conclusion |
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4 Patronage and state-making in early modern empires in India and BritainIntroduction; Patron-client relations in South Asian social analysis; Maratha power: limiting patrimony through patronage; The East India Company state; Markets and patronage; Democracy as Patronage; 5 The paradox of patronage and the people's sovereignty; Patrons and politics; Patronage in electoral law; The state and illegitimate influence; Negotiation and the morality of exchange; Patronage, elections and reputation; Concluding case; 6 India's demotic democracy and its 'depravities' in the ethnographic longue durée |
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Know Wiser?Feast in the time of elections; The law of the fishes; Hierarchy, representation and the depravity of competition; 7 'Vote banking' as politics in Mumbai; Aziz Nagar; Conclusion; 8 Political fixers in India's patronage democracy; Social workers and party workers; Clientelistic exchanges; The BJP will help you; Changing channels of patronage; Conclusion; 9 Patronage and autonomy in India's deepening democracy; Introduction; Changing relations of patronage in Balapalle; Moral elements and politicians-elect; A hero falters; A new expression of autonomous thinking; Conclusion |
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10 Police and legal patronage in northern IndiaIntroduction; Patrons and clients in the police; How little kingpins keep their little kingdoms in order; Conclusion; 11 Patronage politics in post-independence India; Introduction; Why does India have high levels of patronage politics?; The timing of mass political mobilisation vs. the professionalisation of bureaucracy; Ethnic heterogeneity; The effects of political competition; Prospects for change; Conclusion; Prospects and Disappointments; 12 Kingship without kings in northern India; Patronage democracy, representation and divine kinship |
| Summary |
"Focuses on the persistent norms of conduct and communication, forms of economic and ritual exchange, and mutual expectations, which distinguish patronage patterns in South Asian countries from those observed anywhere else"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Patronage, Political -- South Asia
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Social structure -- South Asia
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Political sociology
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Patronage, Political
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Political sociology
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Social structure
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South Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Piliavsky, Anastasia, 1981- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781316156711 |
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1316156710 |
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9781107296930 |
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1107296935 |
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1316156753 |
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9781316156759 |
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1316156737 |
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9781316156735 |
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1316156729 |
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9781316156728 |
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1316156702 |
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9781316156704 |
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1316156745 |
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9781316156742 |
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