Abstract:In the Tata company town of Jamshedpur, incisive popular discourses of
corruption posit a mutually beneficial relationship between ‘legitimate’
institutions and organised criminality, a dynamic believed to enable pervasive
transformations in the city’s industrial and financial infrastructures. This
article situates this local discourse within the wider body of anthropological
work on South Asian corruption, noting a discursive departure from the
hegemonic, personalised and essentially provincialising corruptio… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.