Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Traveling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India's "untouchables" and "tribals" fit into the global economy. India's Dalit and Ad…
"Digitization promises to reshape fiscal policy by transforming how governments collect, process, share, and act on information. More and higher-quality information can improve not only policy design for tax and spending, but also systems for their management, including tax admi…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction Savage Attack: Adivasis and Insurgency in India -- 1. We Shall Fight Them on the Beach: Counterinsurgency, Colonisation and the Andaman Islanders, 1771-186…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Biographical notes -- 1. Windows into a Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal -- 2. In Search of Certainty in Revolutionary India -- 3. The Formation of Political Con…