List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Atul Kohli Part I. Historical Origins: 2. Indian democracy: the historical inheritance Sumit Sarkar Part II. Political Institutions and Democratic Consolidation: 3. India's federal design and multicultural national construction Jyotirindra Dasgupta 4. Center-state relations James Manor 5. Making local government work Subrata K. Mitra 6. Redoing the constitutional design: from an interventionist to a regulatory state Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph 7. The dialectics of Hindu nationalism Amrita Basu: Part III. Social Demands and Democratic Deepening 8. The struggle for equality: caste in Indian politics Myron Weiner 9. Sharing the spoils: group equity, development and democracy Pranab Bardhan 10. Social movement politics in India: institutions, interest, and identities Mary Katzenstein, Smitu Kothari, and Uday Mehta Bibliography Index.

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The Success of India's Democracy

In "Marx at the Margins, " Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx s writings, including journalistic work written for the "New York Tribune, " Anderson presents us with a Marx quite at odds with conventional interpretations. Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development, including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well. Through highly informed readings of work ranging from Marx s unpublished 1879 82 notebooks to his passionate writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond. For this expanded edition, Anderson has written a new preface that discusses the additional 1879 82 notebook material, as well as the influence of the Russian-American philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya on his thinking."

Marx at the margins : on nationalism, ethnicity, and non-western societies : with a new preface

Bibliography of urban history 2019

The Future of Ritual

In contemporary times, hundi has collected countless labels; the international press has spurned innumerable villainous descriptions, the bulk of which have helped to perpetuate a dense fog of notoriety. The critical problem lies in definition. As there is an incomplete understanding of hundi's form and remit, there is also a rather limited understanding of why the system persists, set against the backdrop of modern banking. In many ways the problem of definition presented legal and financial authorities of the early and late twentieth century with core issues which remain unresolved and problematic for authorities in the twenty-first century. By drawing on archival and other historical material pertaining to the system's usage amongst Indian merchants, this paper attempts to tackle much of the confusion and many misconceptions surrounding hundi. The discussion explores the idea that hundi is more accurately described as an indigenous banking system endowed with a complex range of functions, but whose central purpose is trade.

Hundi/hawala: the problem of definition

Rethinking markets in Modern India: embedded exchange and contested jurisdiction

This article argues that, starting from the late colonial period, the Indian state in its correlated attempts to regulate and streamline the operation of monetary markets in line with capitalist development policies and to remove exploitative credit market practices instead produced a binary between a monetary outside and inside. While the state's efforts were intended to delineate the boundaries of the outside produced in this way, removing competing segments of Indian capital from the expanding monetary system, this process of delineation contributed to an already existing divergence in the operational modes. Correspondingly, it reinforced a process of differentiation that centred on the removal of liberal-bourgeois contractual law from market governance on the monetary outside that was gradually substituted by a reputational economy of debt. The monetary outside so produced constitutes one specific form of capitalist outsides in the Indian economy, interpreted as economic arenas and (extractive) accumulation regimes that functionally and procedurally differ from the dominant capitalist economic sector in modern India with which they co-exist. Both historiographic and ethnographic approaches are used to study the related processes of delineation and differentiation in the production of a monetary outside, with a special emphasis on the United Provinces/Uttar Pradesh and the north Indian town of Banaras (Varanasi).

A Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions? The production of a monetary outside in a north Indian town

Markets in modern India: embedded, contested, pliable

The Artifice of Trust: Reputational and Procedural Registers of Trust in North Indian “Informal” Finance

Foreword: New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in a Global Perspective Hartmut Elsenhans 1. Introduction 2. The Theoretical Framework: The Concept of New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements (NCIPM) 3. Context: Politics in India 4. Ideology and Political Practice of Hindu Nationalism 5. The Rise of the BJP 6. The BJP at the Regional and at the Local Level 7. The Changing Face of the BJP 8. Conclusion: The BJP as a New Cultural Identitarian Political Movement

Sebastian Schwecke

Papers

Rethinking markets in Modern India: embedded exchange and contested jurisdiction

A Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions? The production of a monetary outside in a north Indian town

Markets in modern India: embedded, contested, pliable

The Artifice of Trust: Reputational and Procedural Registers of Trust in North Indian “Informal” Finance

New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party