Patronage as Politics in South Asia

99 Pages·2014·2.97 MB·English

Patronage as Politics
in South Asia
Edited by
Anastasia Piliavsky
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Patronage as Politics in South Asia / edited by Anastasia Piliavsky.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: “The volume shows that in South Asia patronage is no feudal residue or
retrograde political pressure, but a vital political force behind South Asia’s burgeoning
democratic cultures.”—Provided by publisher.
isbn 978-1-107-05608-4 (Hardback)
1. Patronage, Political—South Asia. 2. Social structure—South Asia.
3. Political sociology. I. Piliavsky, Anastasia, 1981–
jq98.A91P38 2014
306.20954—dc23
2014002313
isbn 978-1-107-05608-4 Hardback
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For my father
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That which you call corruption I call influence.
John Mortlock (1755–1816)
British banker, woollen draper, Member of Parliament,
and thirteen times Mayor and ‘Master of the Town of Cambridge’
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Foreword by john Dunn xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Anastasia Piliavsky
The Idea of Patronage in South Asia
1. The political economy of patronage, preeminence
and the state in Chennai 39
Mattison Mines
2. The temporal and the spiritual, and the so-called
patron–client relation in the governance of Inner
Asia and Tibet 67
D. Seyfort Ruegg
3. Remnants of patronage and the making of Tamil
Valaiyar pasts 80
Diane Mines
4. Patronage and state-making in early modern empires
in India and Britain 104
Sumit Guha
Democracy as Patronage
5. The paradox of patronage and the people’s sovereignty 125
David Gilmartin
6. India’s demotic democracy and its ‘depravities’ in
the ethnographic longue durée 154
Anastasia Piliavsky
7. ‘Vote banking’ as politics in Mumbai 176
Lisa Björkman
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viii Contents
8. Political fixers in India’s patronage democracy 196
Ward Berenschot
9. Patronage and autonomy in India’s deepening democracy 217
Pamela Price, with Dusi Srinivas
10. Police and legal patronage in northern India 237
Beatrice Jauregui
11. Patronage politics in post-independence India 259
Steven I. Wilkinson
Prospects and Disappointments
12. Kingship without kings in northern India 283
Lucia Michelutti
13. The political bully in Bangladesh 303
Arild Engelsen Ruud
14. The dark side of patronage in the Pakistani Punjab 326
Nicolas Martin
15. Patronage and printing innovation
in 15th-century Tibet 346
Hildegard Diemberger
16. The (im)morality of mediation and patronage in
south India and the Gulf 365
Filippo Osella
Contributors 395
Bibliography 399
Index 447
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List of Illustrations
1 Rajasthan’s Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, depicted as
goddess Annapurna.
1.1 The author and his assistant V. Gopalakrishnan interviewing
Kaikkoolar naaḍu headmen in Tirumalasai in 1985.
3.1 Kumutam image of the Muttaraiyar statue in Trichy.
3.2 Signboard announcing a village branch of the Perumpituku
Muttaraiyar Youth Association.
4.1 ‘Dun-Shaw’, a cartoon by Gillivray showing a kilted but
crowned Dundas as a ‘Bashaw’, or oriental despot, captioned
as follows: ‘One foot in Leadenhall Street and the other in the
Province of Bengal’.
7.1 Kamble with social workers.
7.2 Water pipes in Aziz Nagar.
9.1 Map of the main regions of Andhra Pradesh prior to its
bifurcation in 2013.
11.1 Percentage of total misallocated or lost food in the 2003–2004
Targeted Public Distribution System.
11.2 The policy mix in India at different levels of competition and
economic development.
15.1 Map of southwestern Tibet.
15.2 The 1407 print of the sBas gdon gsal ba.
15.3 Blockprinting at the Sera monastery in Tibet.
15.4 The Shel dkar (Shekar) fortress, the capital of La stod lho
(Southern Lato).
15.5 A statue of Bo dong Phyogs las rnam rgyal.
15.6 A depiction of Chos kyi sgron ma.
15.7 A monk at the Paltsek Research Institute in Lhasa.
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