New subjects and new governance in India

This volume looks at the ways in which governance in the exercise of its strategies also acts as a process of production of subjects. It argues that governance is not a one-sided affair starting and ending with those who rule and govern, producing fiats, decrees, and diktats, but a productive process - one that produces subjects of governance who in turn respond to the process, and make the field of governance a contentious one. Against the backdrop of the first transition of democracy in India from its origin in a colonial polity to the first phase of its independent life after the promulgati

Introduction -- A second transition? sources of legitimacy and 'scientific' governance. The democratic story of twin challenges to governance : identity needs and developmental needs / Amit Prakash ; New technique of governance : e-governance and India's democratic experience / Dipankar Sinha ; Disasters : experiences of development during the embankment years in Bihar / Manish K. Jha ; Between ecology and economy : environmental governance in India / Sutirtha Bedajna ; Conflict and development : implications for democracy and governance / Sujata Dutta Hazarika -- The production of appropriate subjects. The cultured subjects / Badri Narayan Tiwari ; A well-behaved minority population / Ranabir Samaddar ; The educated subjects / Anup Dhar