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MandiActs and Market Lore: Regulatory Life in India’s Agricultural Markets

Mekhala Krishnamurthy
- pp 179-205
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Marx at the margins : on nationalism, ethnicity, and non-western societies : with a new preface

TL;DR: In "Marx at the Margins, " as mentioned in this paper, a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light.
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The Future of Ritual

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Hundi/hawala: the problem of definition

TL;DR: In this article, a 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.
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Behind the Curtain

TL;DR: This is the story of a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age and had to undergo surgery to remove her ovary.
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Cities in South Asia

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of religious practices for the Indian middle class in the formation of the Indian city and discuss the post-colonisation and post-colonial transformation of South Asian cities.
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A Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions? The production of a monetary outside in a north Indian town

TL;DR: This paper argued that 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.
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Market formation in Khandesh, c. 1820-1930:

TL;DR: Roy et al. as discussed by the authors examined the changing character of the marketing system in the region of Khandesh in northern Maharashtra during the first century of British rule, focusing primarily on the places that were essential to making ordinary goods available to rural folk.
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Afterword The Dreamwork of Capitalism

TL;DR: In this afterword, this article discussed how the essays in this section have provoked me to propose this unorthodox lens on capitalism, with inspiration from thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and Fredric Jameson, all of whom have seen in capitalism the makings of a new eschatology and a new magical imaginary.
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Invisibility of "other" dalits and silence in the law

Sumit Baudh
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
TL;DR: The invisibility of "other" Dalits and the silence about them is located in an emerging legal moment in which transgender persons are compared with 'untouchable' Dalits but there is no legal understanding of persons who are both transgender and Dalit as mentioned in this paper.
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