Governance by Stealth: The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Making of the Indian State - Tapa dura

Mitra, Subrata K.

 
9780199460489: Governance by Stealth: The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Making of the Indian State
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ISBN 10: 0199460485 ISBN 13: 9780199460489
Editorial: OUP India, 2021

Sinopsis

India's Ministry of Home Affairs, with its striking durability, and ability to adapt to the transition from colonial rule to post-colonial governance, is a remarkable example of institutional resilience. Home's special expertise in governance by stealth - maximum order with the use of minimum force - was instrumental for the department to acquire a secure niche within the colonial structure. Following the end of colonial rule in 1947, the Home Department, still ensconced in the majestic North Block of Delhi, mutated into the Home Ministry of the Indian Republic. How a colonial institution whose key task was to hold Indian nationalism at bay became the architect of the post-colonial state and nation, is one of the main questions to which I respond in this book. Home's multiple roles as the keeper of public order, mentor to public services and the invisible sinews of the state that holds the noisy democracy and assertive regions together to explain its exalted status in India's governance and politics. My analysis, based on declassified files of the Ministry of Home Affairs, correspondences, biographies and interviews, explores the multiple roles of the Ministry, with its penchant for governance by stealth as my focus

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Subrata K. Mitra is Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.

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Editorial
OUP India
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0199460485
ISBN 13 
9780199460489
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Número de páginas
472
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