The Dual State
The Unruly "Subordinate", Caste, Community And Civil Service Recruitment In North India, 1930-1955
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4301183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Gould, William B Gould (0000-0001-5774-3006, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 13-43 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2007.00299.x |
| OpenAlex | W2076425879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This paper explores the nature of the everyday state in historical perspective in colonial and postcolonial Uttar Pradesh, north India, through the lens of civil service recruitment. It argues that social relationships between different cadres of the revenue and police services effectively created a bureaucratic space in which citizens' approaches to the state recreated forms of ambiguity in the reach and authority of state power. In this sense, it provides a deeper historical basis for anthropological and sociological work on the nature of the "fuzzy" everyday state in postcolonial India. But it develops this literature further, arguing that important structural changes over independence in 1947, also transformed the ways in which caste and community lobby groups represented their corporate interests through bureaucratic recruitment. These lobby groups, as a result of disjunctions in state power and discourses, between centre, province and locality, were often able to subvert systems of caste and community reservation. In the process, their actions emphasized the inability of the state at central and provincial levels to adjust to local political identities that depended on hybridity
Bureaucracy · Caste · Colonialism · Hybridity · Independence (probability theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Gender Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2019 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |