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Produktbild: Governance by Stealth

Governance by Stealth The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Making of the Indian State

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

02.02.2022

Verlag

Oxford Academic

Seitenzahl

472

Maße (L/B/H)

22,4/15,2/3,3 cm

Gewicht

612 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-946048-9

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

02.02.2022

Verlag

Oxford Academic

Seitenzahl

472

Maße (L/B/H)

22,4/15,2/3,3 cm

Gewicht

612 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-946048-9

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Governance by Stealth


    • Chapter One


    • Governance by stealth, and, the making of India's Home Ministry


    • Home's distinctive character


    • Is governance by stealth an elite conspiracy?


    • Why India? Order-making as State Formation: the 'Missing Link'


    • Raj to Swaraj: Poachers into gamekeepers


    • Ministers and civil servants: the Janus-face of the Indian state


    • Home: The 'charlady' of the government, and more


    • Independence and the ordeal of post-colonial chaos


    • Structure of the narrative


    • Sources, and the method of analysis


    • Contributions of the book and its limitations


    • Chapter Two


    • Governance as process: Colonial legacy, hybrid norms, and institutional arrangement


    • Colonial Order: Appropriation and re-use of Indian culture


    • The Structure of colonial power and its orderly unravelling


    • Norms of governance by stealth and the post-colonial challenge


    • Post-colonial Democracy and a dynamic, neo-institutional model of governance


    • What holds India's political system together?


    • Chapter Three


    • The Sentinel of Order: Home - origin, evolution, functions and structure


    • Imperial rule and Home's functional niche


    • Origin and evolution


    • From Department to Ministry (1947)


    • The functions and Structure of the Ministry (1948)


    • The internal architecture of the Ministry: Allocation of Business Rules (1961)


    • Organization of the Ministry


    • The 'new look' charlady: Home - balancing authority, accountability and compliance


    • Chapter Four


    • Politicians, civil servants and post-colonial Governance: Continued synergy, despite role reversal


    • Regime Change, with seamless continuity


    • The challenge of leadership: Synergy of ministers and secretaries


    • Ministerial leadership


    • Bureaucracy: the 'Old Faithful' of Indian politics


    • Ministers and Secretaries: Conflicting loyalties?


    • PM- HM- HS: An Incompatible triad?


    • Chapter Five


    • Home at work: Re-shaping public services and integrating national territory


    • Public Order and Public Services: dual challenges for the Home Ministry


    • The challenge of re-shaping the civil service


    • Recasting the colonial civil service in a national mould


    • Post-partition trauma, and building of an Indian nation


    • Integration by stealth: Princely states and the dilemma of Independence


    • Junagarh


    • Hyderabad


    • Jammu and Kashmir State


    • Generous in victory: Patel stoops to conquer!


    • On to the 'promised land', with Home


    • Chapter Six


    • Setting the Mould: Home and the 1950s


    • Setting the political agenda: The Congress 'system', Home Ministry and the 1950s


    • Public services


    • Reorganisation of the Machinery of Government


    • Nehru and Patel: a tense duopoly


    • Home at work: creation of new, innovative institutions


    • The 1950s' harvest: Embryonic norms and policy outcomes of the 'new' politics


    • The 1950s: Institutionalization of governance by stealth


    • Chapter Seven


    • Home, beyond the foundational decade: Manifest decline, resilient frame


    • 1960s and the beginning of governmental instability: Home under pressure


    • Self-portrait of the Ministry, 1960-61


    • Indo-China border war, 1962: unintended consequences for the MHA


    • The growing hiatus of politics and administration: facing the uncertainty of the 1970s


    • Special measures during emergency


    • Revoking Emergency: Home, redux?


    • The 1980s: A decade of 'deinstitutionalization'


    • India's 1984: Home at its nadir


    • Beyond the Foundational Decade: Home's complex trajectory


    • Chapter Eight


    • Holding the state together: The Ministry of Home Affairs and India's 'unity in diversity'


    • The 'rational' politics of cultural nationalism and the danger of 'Balkanization'


    • Surreptitious integration: Regulating public holidays


    • Censorship


    • Mediation in contesting claims over regional boundaries


    • Engaging insurgency through peace initiatives


    • Creation of sub-States


    • 'Colonization' of Union Territories


    • Institutional innovation: Reorganisation of JandK militia


    • President's rule: MHA and Indian States


    • Punjab: limited success, despite President's rule


    • India's 'Unity in Diversity', with a little help from Home's silken threads


    • Chapter Nine


    • Governing the sacred: Home and the quest for collective identity


    • Sacred spaces and colonial power


    • The Devaswom Board: A colonial innovation


    • Religion, post-independence: fundamental right and fundamental cause of political strife


    • Home, and evolution of a national language policy


    • Combatting 'Communalism' through the Project of 'National Integration'


    • After Ayodhya riot (1992), what kept Bhiwandi quiet?


    • Accommodating regional and sectional identities within the modern state


    • Continuing relevance of language and religion as issues in Indian politics


    • Chapter Ten


    • Ultima ratio regum: Force in the making of legitimacy


    • The forceful state: Home's fire power


    • The gathering and processing of intelligence


    • Legitimate force? An Indian dilemma


    • The 'Liberation' of Goa, 1961


    • Force, bound by law


    • Policing the police: Lessons of the PAC (UP) revolt, 1973


    • Legitimate force? Democracy's conundrum


    • Chapter Eleven


    • Home stymied: The Emergency regime, 1975-77, and its aftermath


    • Orderly rule, emergency and due process: A symbiotic triad


    • Carl Schmitt: the role of the sovereign in an emergency


    • The Political context of the Emergency


    • The Janata Interlude (1977-79): Home and the middle ground between orderly rule and anti-emergency zealotry


    • Emergency as conundrum: Home's cruel dilemma


    • Home: Orderly rule and the legacy of the 1970s


    • Chapter Twelve


    • When Home Fails: Compliance and Contestation in a post-colonial state


    • Assessing compliance: Three analytic narratives


    • Ayodhya: demolition of the Babri mosque


    • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir


    • Maoist movements (LWE)


    • Norms of governance by stealth reconsidered


    • -loss of elite consensus and its impact on compliance


    • -High efficacy and low trust, and non-compliance


    • Home on the mend


    • Rupture of orderly rule in India: cumulative or diminishing?


    • Conclusion


    • The Reason of State: Governance by Stealth, and beyond


    • Home at work


    • The logic of appropriateness and grey areas of governance


    • The reason of state and the ambiguity of power


    • Liberal Politics in an illiberal context: Home's challenge


    • Re-enchanting the state


    • Still the 'steel frame'?