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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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Constructing prestige and elaborating the 'professional': Elite residential complexes in the National Capital Region, India

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the production of the internationally familiar landscapes of gated high-rise housing, malls and information technology campuses that have been constructed in the National Capi...
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Hindu–Muslim Brotherhood Exploring the Dynamics of Communal Relations in Varanasi, North India

TL;DR: This paper explored the role of the state, civil society, and government in preventing communal violence in Varanasi, India, and examined the mechanisms that enabled communal peace to prevail in light of existing theoretical literature on communal violence.
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Supermarkets in India: Struggles Over the Organization of Agricultural Markets and Food Supply Chains

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the conflicts and distributional effects of efforts to restructure food supply chains in India and examined how large retail corporations are presently attempting to transform how fresh produce is produced and distributed in the “new” India and efforts by policymakers, farmers, and traders to resist these changes.
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Awkward Classes and India's Development

TL;DR: This paper argued that deviations from the polar classes of capital and labour should not be ignored, regarded as outliers or as ''outliers'' or ''outsiders'' in the model.
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State and Capital in Independent India: Institutions and Accumulations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a historical account of the relationship between state and capital from independence to the liberalization episodes of the 1980s and after, focusing on the organization of business houses, corporate governance structures, labour laws, and the institution of the family and personal laws.