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.

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Commercial crimes--India.
Commercial crimes--Pakistan.
Commercial crimes--Bangladesh.
Business enterprises--Corrupt practices--India.
Business enterprises--Corrupt practices--Pakistan.
Business enterprises--Corrupt practices--Bangladesh.