Routledge Studies in South Asian History Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India: Society and the State, 1930s - 1960s, Book 11, (Hardcover)

Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India. The author moves away from assumptions that the state can primarily be associated with the top levels of government, and looks at citizens' approaches to local level bureaucracies and police.