Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: States of Imagination 1
5. I STATE AND GOVERNANCE
6. ‘‘Demonic Societies’’: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty 41
7. Governing Population: The Integrated Child Development Services Program in India 65
8. The Battlefield and the Prize: ANC’s Bid to Reform the South African State 97
9. Imagining the State as a Space: Territoriality and the Formation of the State in Ecuador 123
10. II STATE AND JUSTICE
11. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Technique of Nation-State Formation 149
12. Reconstructing National Identity and Renegotiating Memory: The Work of the TRC 182
13. Rethinking Citizenship: Reforming the Law in Postwar Guatemala 203
14. Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai 221
15. III STATE AND COMMUNITY
16. Before History and Prior to Politics: Time, Space, and Territory in the Modern Peruvian Nation-State 257
17. Urbanizing the Countryside: Armed Conflict, State Formation, and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Guatemala 284
18. In the Name of the State? Schools and Teachers in an Andean Province 313
19. The Captive State: Corruption, Intelligence Agencies, and Ethnicity in Pakistan 345
20. Public Secrets, Conscious Amnesia, and the Celebration of Autonomy for Ladakh 365
21. Bibliography 391
22. About the Contributors 415
23. Index 417