Publications (Democratic Cultures)

2020

• Picherit, D (2020) ‘ Elections will not change anything. But they can change my life’. Manipulation of the electoral process and self-making of small politicians in Andhra Pradesh. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.
• Javid, H. and Martin, N.  (2020) 'Democracy and Discrimination: Comparing Caste-Based Politics in Indian and Pakistani Punjab.' In South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43(1), 136-151.
• Martin, N (2020) 'Enforcing political loyalties in local elections: an ethnographic account from Punjab.' In Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 58(1), 63-81.
• Martin, N. and Picherit, D. 'Special issue: electoral fraud and manipulation in India and Pakistan.' In Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 58(1), 1-20.
• Michelutti, L. (2020). Electoral manipulation and impunity: ethnographic notes from Uttar Pradesh. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 58 (1), 21-42.
• Michelutti, L. (2020). Caste and the Anthropology of Democracy. In Y. Srivastava, J. Abraham (Eds.), Critical Themes in Indian Sociology. SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited.
• Rollier, Paul (2020) The lion’s share: elections and democracy in Pakistan. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics,
• Rollier, Paul; Ruud, Arild & Kathinka, Froystad Rollier, Paul; Ruud, Arild & Kathinka, Froystad (ed.) : Outrage: the rise of religious offence in South Asia. London : UCL Press, 2019.
• Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2020). The mohol: The hidden power structure of Bangladesh local politics. Contributions to Indian sociology.  ISSN 0069-9667

2019

• Harriss-White B. and L. Michleutti (2019). The Wild East. Criminal Political Economies in South Asia. London: UCL Press.
•  Picherit, D. 2019. Violences politiques et démocratie en Inde du sud : Une ethnographie des hommes de main Dalit de politiciens mafieux.. Absi, Pascale, Françoise Bourdarias et Isabelle Guérin (eds), Figures anthropologiques de la domination. Paris: L’Harmattan., 2019. (hal-02431608)
• David Picherit (2019). ‘Red sanders mafia’ in South India: violence, electoral democracy and labour. The Wild East, UCL Press, pp.194-214.
• Martin, N. (2019). ‘Political Exclusion and Subordination of Scheduled Castes in Rural Malwa, Punjab.' In Jodhka, Surinder S.; Simpson, Edward(eds) India’s Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 253-273.
• Martin, N. (2020) ‘Politics, Capital, and Land Grabs in Rural Punjab’ in The Wild East, Criminal Political Economies across South Asia, London: UCL Press.
• Michelutti, L. (2019). The criminal life of sand and oil mafias in North India.  In Wild East Criminal Political Economies UCL Press.
• Michelutti, L. (2019). Circuits of Protection and Extortion. Sovereignty in North Indian Town. South Asian Sovereignty The Conundrum of Worldly Power. India: Routledge India.
• Ruud, Arild (2019). Sovereign Sensibilities Gunday and the nation as the self. I: South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power. Routledge.
• Ruud, Arild (2019). The Politics of Contracting in Provincial Bangladesh. I: The Wild East: Criminal Political Economies in South Asia. UCL Press.
• Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Price, Pamela Gwynne; Gilmartin, David (2019). South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power. Routledge.
• Ruud, A (2019) The Osman Dynasty: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Family. Studies in Indian Politics 2018 ;Volume 6.(2) p. 209-224
• Ruud, Arild Engelsen; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019) Political Dynasticism: Networks, Trust, Risk. Studies in Indian Politics 2018 ;Volume 6.(2) p. 157-167
• Still, C. (2019) 'Dalit women, rape and the rise of patriarchy' in S. Anandhi and Karin Kapadia (eds.). Dalit Women: The Politics and Metaphysics of Identity in India. New Delhi: Routledge

2018

• Hoque A and  Michelutti, L (2018). ‘Brushing with Organized Crime and Democracy: the Art of Making Do in South Asia’. The Journal of Asian Studies, 77(3): 911-1011.
• Jauregui, B. (2018)  “Police unions and the politics of democratic security in postcolonial India.” Qualitative Sociology 41(2): 145-172.
• Michelutti, Lucia; Hoque, Ashraf; Martin, Nicolas; Picherit David, Rollier Paul, Ruud Arild and Clarinda Still. ‘Mafia Raj: the Rule of Bosses in South Asia. Stanford University Press.
• Michelutti, L. (2018). Parivar Raj (Rule of Family): The Role of Money and Force in the Making of Dynastic Authority. Studies in Indian Politics.
• Hansen, T.B (2018"Whose Public, Whose Authority? Reflections on the moral force of violence", Modern Asian Studies. Special Issue entitled "The Politics of Order and Disturbance. Public Authority, sovereignty and Public Contestation in South Asia" Edited by Bart Klem and Bert Suykens.
• Martin, N (2018) Corruption and factionalism in contemporary Punjab: an ethnographic account from rural Malwa.  Modern Asian Studies. Special Issue entitled "The Politics of Order and Disturbance. Public Authority, sovereignty and Public Contestation in South Asia" Edited by Bart Klem and Bert Suykens
• Martin, N (2018) 'Dalal' in A. Ledeneva (ed.) The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality. London: UCL Press.
• Martin, N. and Michelutti, L. (2017) Protection rackets and party machines.  Comparative Ethnographies of 'Mafia Raj' in North India. Asian Journal of Social Science. Special Issue Spaces of Violence in Democracies. Edited by Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and Eva Gerharz.
• Michelutti, L (f). The age of the boss. Seminar. Special entitled "India's Democratic Authoritarianism" Edited by Kanchan Chandra.
• Michelutti, Lucia (forthcoming). 'Mafia Raj', in A. Ledeneva (ed.)  The Global Encyclopedia of Informality. London: UCL Press.