دانلود کتاب Patronage as Politics in South Asia

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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
Patronage and Tamil generosity
Locating 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
4 Patronage and state-making in early modern empires in India and Britain
Introduction
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
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
10 Police and legal patronage in northern India
Introduction
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
Elected representatives, beneficent donors or violent protectors?
Divine genealogies, caste and the collective nature of patronage
Divine kinship and being extraordinary, or deifying ‘the people’
Fears, violence and strategic caste-based voting
Conclusion
13 The political bully in Bangladesh
In the beginning
Party affinities
Reciprocity, ‘contacts’ and loyalties
Action and violence
Politics as morality
Free-range clients in the underworld
Conclusion
14 The dark side of patronage in the Pakistani Punjab
Introduction
Changing patterns of dominance
Popular politics and the dominance of landlords
Why elections did not improve political accountability
Conclusions
15 Patronage and printing innovation in 15th-century Tibet
Books as relics and merit-makers
A witness to the Tibetan printing revolution
A devout innovator in pursuit of legitimacy and power
The princely patron of print
The lama who oversaw the printing process
The history of Gung Thang
Printing for change in Tibet
In the 21st century
An ending thought
16 The (im)morality of mediation and patronage in south India and the Gulf
State, migration and the politics of mediation
Connectedness across the Indian Ocean
Expanding one’s networks
Modalities of connectedness and mediation
Morality and legitimacy in the informal life
Conclusion
Contributors
Bibliography
Index