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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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Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India: The Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata

TL;DR: A close study of the Āpaddharmaparvan which sitsuates it within its context in the great Sanskrit epic the Mahābhārata and within Indian political and social thought, and explores the relationship of its didacticism to the broader literary context of the Mahábhárata is presented in this article.
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Religious Gifting and Inland Commerce in Seventeenth-Century South India

TL;DR: In this article, the Nakarattars, a caste of itinerant salt traders, combined worship and commerce in the interior of Tamil-speaking South India, were analyzed using the Nattukottai Chettiars.
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Not biting the dust: using a tripartite model of organized crime to examine India’s Sand Mafia

TL;DR: This article developed a tripartite model of organized crime that is used to explore the Sand Mafia's modus operandi, modus vivendi, and modus coordinati.
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Tacit knowledge, rule following and Pierre Bourdieu’s philosophy of social science:

TL;DR: Bourdieu has developed a philosophy of social science, grounded in the phenomenological tradition, which treats knowledge as a practical ability embodied in skilful behaviour, rather than an intellectual capacity for the representation and manipulation of propositional knowledge as mentioned in this paper.