Imprisoned in India
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Imprisoned in India

Corruption and Extortion in the World's Largest Democracy

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Imprisoned in India

Corruption and Extortion in the World's Largest Democracy

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James Tooley has been described as a 21st-century Indiana Jones, travelling to remote parts of the developing world to track something that many regarded as mythical: private schools serving the poor. It was in the Indian city of Hyderabad that Tooley first discovered these schools, and wrote about them in his award-winning book The Beautiful Tree, which also documented state corruption and the attempts to shut the schools down. But the state was to exact revenge: upon returning to Hyderabad, Tooley was unjustly arrested and thrown into prison.Conditions in the prison were dire, and the jailers typically cruel and violent, but the other prisoners were extraordinarily kind. Chillingly, many had been in prison for years, never charged with anything, often victims of police corruption, too poor to go to court and secure bail.Imprisoned in India tells the story of Tooley's incarceration and subsequent battles with maddeningly corrupt Indian bureaucracy, which made him realise how fundamental the rule of law is to the workings of a good society. It's something we take for granted, but without which all human flourishing is threatened, especially for the poor. Tooley discovered, too, how the human spirit, even amongst those wrongfully imprisoned, can soar above the brutality and tyranny of those in power.

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Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
9781785901997
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. CHAPTER 1: A rest in Hyderabad
  6. CHAPTER 2: In the margins
  7. CHAPTER 3: They can’t take that away from you
  8. INTERLUDE: Magna Carta, ‘undertrials’ and the rule of law
  9. CHAPTER 4: The difficulty of doing good
  10. CHAPTER 5: Out of Hyderabad
  11. INTERLUDE: The ubiquity of police corruption
  12. CHAPTER 6: Money or power
  13. CHAPTER 7: A modest proposal
  14. INTERLUDE: Why corruption? Discretion and the rule of law
  15. CHAPTER 8: Things fall apart
  16. CHAPTER 9: Comeuppance
  17. Epilogue
  18. References
  19. Acknowledgements
  20. Copyright