Abstract
Book details: Government as practice: democratic left in a transforming India, Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, 2016, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 273 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-10226-2 (hbk).
This article reviews Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya's recent book: Government as Practice, Democratic Left in a Transforming India. The book is a crucial addition to the understanding of the crisis of governability for not only left and/or Indian political establishments, but also for various regimes across the Global South. The review highlights the thematic arguments of the book, unpacks its core notion of 'governance as practice', and assesses the book's scholarly implications for a wider audience.
This article reviews Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya's recent book: Government as Practice, Democratic Left in a Transforming India. The book is a crucial addition to the understanding of the crisis of governability for not only left and/or Indian political establishments, but also for various regimes across the Global South. The review highlights the thematic arguments of the book, unpacks its core notion of 'governance as practice', and assesses the book's scholarly implications for a wider audience.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 331-341 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of South Asian Development |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 23 Nov 2017 |
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| Publication status | Early online - 23 Nov 2017 |