Author Description

Product Description This volume brings together ten essays from the author's enduring work on the different dimensions of power in Indian society. It traces how issues of political and institutional power explain economic change, resource management and poverty, inequality and governance, social capital, andcivil society. About the Author About the Editor: John Harriss is Program Director in the Development Studies Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a member of the School's Department of Anthropology. He was formerly Reader and Dean of the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. He isnoted for his research on social change in South Asia and for work on agrarian change and development. He is author of Capitalism and Peasant Farming and editor of Sociology of Developing Societies (with Hamza Alavi) and of Rural Development.