The wild East : criminal political economies in South Asia /
edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia Michelutti.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages).
This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The criminal economics and politics of black coal in Jharkhand, 2014 -- Jharia’s century-old fire kept ablaze by crime and politics -- Sand and the politics of plunder in Tamil Nadu, India -- Himalayan hydro-criminality? Dams, development and politics in Arunachal Pradesh, India -- Crime in the air: spectrum markets and the telecommunications sector in India -- The inter-state criminal life of sand and oil in North India -- 'Red sanders mafia’ in South India: violence, electoral democracy and labour -- The 'land and real estate mafia’, West Bengal, East India -- Politics, capital, and land grabs in Punjab, India -- The politics of contracting in provincial Bangladesh -- Putting out the Baldia factory fire: how the trial of Karachi's industrial capitalism did not happen.
Electronic reproduction. London : UCL Press, 2019. Available in PDF format. Description based on contents viewed 15 October 2019.
Commercial crimes--India. Commercial crimes--Pakistan. Commercial crimes--Bangladesh. Business enterprises--Corrupt practices--India. Business enterprises--Corrupt practices--Pakistan. Business enterprises--Corrupt practices--Bangladesh.