Gupta, Akhil,  1959- <br/><br/>
Red tape :  bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India / 
Akhil Gupta. 
 - Durham :  Duke University Press,  2012. 
 - xiii, 368 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - A John Hope Franklin Center book .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-354) and index. 
<br/><br/>Poverty as biopolitics -- "The state" and the politics of poverty -- Corruption, politics, and the imagined state -- Narratives of corrupti on -- "Let the paper train run" : bureaucratic writing as state practic e -- Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy -- Population and neoliberal governmentality. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822351108 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poverty--Government policy--India.<br/>Public welfare--India.<br/>Political corruption--India.<br/>Bureaucracy--India.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.3/50954