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Markets in modern India: embedded, contested, pliable

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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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Gambling and consumption: working-class women and UK National Lottery play

TL;DR: This paper explored the motivations and experiences of National Lottery play amongst a group of working-class women in the UK and examined the usefulness of current theories of gambling and proposed a link between gambling and contemporary consumer culture.
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Brand architecture in tourism branding: the way forward for India

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors arrive at a brand architecture model for promoting India as a tourism destination brand, carrying with it a diversity of tourism products and states/regions, and propose migration towards a cohesive brand architecture with a hierarchy of well-connected brands.
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Nation's Two Bodies: rethinking the idea of ‘new' India and its other

TL;DR: In the Brand India initiative, the very idea of prosperity and equity has now become first and foremost a matter of image as discussed by the authors, which is not only etched in popular discourses but also in policy-making apparatus engaged in the task of creating a global identity for India.
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Ayurveda Made Modern

Rachel Berger