Through eleven case studies conducted across India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, The Wild East examines a variety of economic sectors and business enterprises that regularly flout the law, such as coal, oil, real estate, and industrial labor.
Bridging anthropology and Political economy, the case studies explore how state regulative law is ignored or selectively manipulated and reveal the workings of regulated Criminal economic systems in which politicians, police, judges, and bureaucrats.
Through eleven case studies conducted across India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, The Wild East examines a variety of economic sectors and business enterprises that regularly flout the law, such as coal, oil, real estate, and industrial labor
