Paper Performance And The State
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Paper, Performance, and the State
Author: Farhat Hasan
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2022-02-03
This book explores the changing socio–cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new spaces of social communication, and led to the development of a performative (and somatic) public sphere in South Asia. The work highlights the significance of legal spaces, along with the markets and coffeehouses, in shaping the emergent public sphere. While defending the case for legal pluralism, it argues that the Mughal state endured and enhanced the diversity in the legal order. Focusing on the socially embedded attributes of the state, it looks at how the state's relations with the local powers impinged on, and reproduced community identities, identity conflicts, legal pluralism, property relations, and different forms of social communication.
Paper, Performance, and the State
"Looking at the political process in early modern South Asia as shaped by state formation from below, the work argues that, outside the imperial and trans-regional contexts, the state subsisted on the mutually empowering relations with the elites and common people. In pitching for the model of 'mutually empowering interactions' as the basis of state-society relations, the study highlights not simply the dependence of the state on local circuits of power and resource dispensation, but also its socially embedded character. These relations-formal and intimate, and familial and impersonal-embroiled the state into ever-deepening local arenas, and served to create spaces for state participation in social and cultural spaces, and equally for social participation in state spaces. In this work, the author takes an in-depth, if diachronic look at the social constituents of the state, and sees how the state's relations with the local power relations impinged on, and reproduced, the legal order, local corporate bodies, forms of social communication and property transactions. Focusing on the socially embedded attributes of the state, the present study offers fresh perspectives concerning the socio-cultural developments of the period, in particular, over issues concerning legal pluralism, literacy and oral traditions, identity politics, publicness and public sphere, and property relations"--
State Government and Economic Performance
Beginning in the Reagan administration, shifting federal economic policies have forced states to bear an increasing share of the burden of their economic development. Some states have weathered the transition well; others have not. In State Government and Economic Performance, Paul Brace combines political and economic analysis to examine the changing relationship between state and federal governments, and to identify those factors which have allowed certain states to manage change effectively.