Rethinking Markets in Modern India (eBook, ePUB)

Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction
Redaktion: Gandhi, Ajay

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

To people operating in India's economy, actually existing markets are remarkably different from how planners and academics conceive them. From the outside, they appear as demarcated arenas of exchange bound by state-imposed rules. As historical and social realities, however, markets are dynamic, adaptative, and ambiguous spaces. This book delves into this intricate context, exploring Indian markets through the competition and collaboration of those who frame and participate in markets. Anchored in vivid case studies - from colonial property and advertising milieus to today's bazaar and criminal economies - this volume underlines the friction and interdependence between commerce, society, and state. Contributors from history, anthropology, political economy, and development studies synthesize existing scholarly approaches, add new perspectives on Indian capitalism's evolution, and reveal the transactional specificities that underlie the real-world functioning of markets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108801126
• Artikelnr.: 62746036

Inhaltsangabe

1. Markets in Modern India: Embedded, Contested, Pliable Sebastian Schwecke
and Ajay Gandhi; 2. Banking in the Bazaar: The Nattukottai Chettiars David
Rudner; 3. Space in Motion: An Uneven Narrative of Urban Private Property
in Bombay Nikhil Rao; 4. Magic of Business: Occult Forces in the Bazaar
Economy Projit Bihari Mukharji; 5. Vernacular Capitalism, Advertising, and
the Bazaar in Early Twentieth-century Western India Douglas E. Haynes; 6.
The Artifice of Trust: Reputational and Procedural Registers of Trust in
North Indian 'Informal' Finance Sebastian Schwecke; 7. Mandi Acts and
Market Lore: Regulatory Life in India's Agricultural Markets Mekhala
Krishnamurthy; 8. The Market and the Sovereign: Politics, Performance, and
Impasses of Cross-LOC trade Aditi Saraf; 9. Brandism vs. Bazaarism:
Mediating Divinity in Banaras Andy Rotman; 10. Fighting Specters and
Fostering Relations: An Ethnography of Black Money in India Ajay Gandhi;
11. Market Making in Punjab Lotteries: Regulation and Mutual Dependence
Matthew Hull; 12. Liquid Assets: Transactional Grammars of Alcohol in
Jharkhand Roger Begrich; 13. Building on Sand? Criminal Markets and
Politics in Tamil Nadu Barbara Harriss-White and J. Jeyaranjan; Index.