Paper tiger : law, bureaucracy and the developmental state in Himalayan India - Mathur, Nayanika (New Delhi Cambrigde University press, 2016)
Through a meticulous detailing of the everyday life of development bureaucracy on the Himalayan borderland, Paper Tiger shifts the frames of the debate on state failure and opens up a refreshingly new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state.
Keywords: Bureaucracy; National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme - India