Experiencing the state / edited by Lloyd I. Rudolph and John Kurt Jacobsen.

Contributed research papers.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Framing the inquiry : historicizing the modern state / Lloyd I. Rudolph and John Kurt Jacobsen -- High modernist social engineering : the case of the Tennessee Valley Authority / James C. Scott -- The cost of living : the Narmada Dam and the Indian state / Arundhati Roy -- Understanding the collapse of the Soviet Union / Hyung-Min-Joo -- How political scientists experienced India's development state / Paul R. Brass -- Experiencing reunification : an East German village after the fall of the wall / Helmuth Berking -- The dynamics of bureaucratic rule in Pakistan : a personal view / Tasneem Ahmed Siddiqui -- Face to face with the Indian state : a grass roots view / Philip Oldenburg -- Experiencing care : psychotherapy and NHS mental health reform in Britain / Nicholas Temple -- In cahoots? Cinema, cynicism, and citizenship / John Kurt Jacobsen -- Forest of logos : empire of signs / Patricia Bickers -- Gandhi's trial and India's colonial state / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Experiencing repressive states in America and the Koreas / Bruce Cumings -- Conclusion : Sovereignty unbound : Experiencing the state after 9/11 / Lloyd I. Rudolph and John Kurt Jacobsen.