Routray, Sailen
(2011)
Shifting waterscapes: Tradition, development and change in Orissa.
Doctoral thesis, NIAS.
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Thesis advisor | Mohan, N Shantha | UNSPECIFIED |
Abstract: |
Kalahandi has been discussed as a case of absolute deprivation amidst relative plenty, and
the reason for this has often been identified as the lack of proper developmental action by
the state. Amongst governmental developmental interventions, water-related
interventions, especially those related to watershed development, assume salience
because of the framing of Kalahandi as a land of drought. To understand emergent forms
of governmental action in the field of watershed development in Kalahandi, doctoral
fieldwork was undertaken in the project site of Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project
(WORLP), a governmental, participatory watershed development project that was being
implemented in Kalahandi. Doctoral fieldwork was undertaken in the period between
June 2008 and February 2010 using ethnographic methods such as in-depth unstructured
interviews, semi-structured interviews, observation and participant observation along
with collection of secondary material.
The study identifies the mission mode of doing government as a key change that
happened during the last 25 years involving an increased importance of ‘social’
technologies. The study describes five governmental tactics related to emergent modes of
governmental action; it also identifies an increasing convergence in the everyday
practices of governmental and non-governmental organisations, and the growth of ‘the
social’ as a terrain and object of governmental action as two important effects of the
deployment of these tactics.
The study identifies toutary as a key social domain that frames the perceptions and
actions of people related to the state. As a domain toutary is populated by social agents,
called touters; toutary can be defined as the interstitial zone between state and society
created by the increasing penetration by the state through social technologies. This study
provides a critique of a dominant strand of theorising the state in India involving
borrowings of Gramscian notions of passive revolution into the Indian context and its
recent extension through the political society formulation to understand the postcolonial
state in India. It shows the advantages of an ethnographic approach towards studying the
everyday state in India, and tries to briefly discuss implications of such an understanding
of the state for ‘underdeveloped’ districts such as Kalahandi. |
Item Type: |
Thesis
(Doctoral)
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Additional Information: |
The thesis was submitted to the University of Mysore through the Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore,Mysore. [Year of Award 2012] [Thesis No. TH11] |
Keywords: |
Backward district, Development of Orissa, Framing Kalahandi, Mission mode, shifting waterscapes, state-fabrication in India, vernacular perceptions |
Subjects: |
School of Social Sciences > Sociology Doctoral Programme > Theses |
Divisions: |
Schools > Social Sciences |
Date Deposited: |
13 Oct 2011 08:56 |
Last Modified: |
23 Feb 2021 10:08 |
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URI: |
http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/220 |
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