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Markets in modern India: embedded, contested, pliable
Ajay Gandhi,Sebastian Schwecke +1 more
- pp 1-28
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Becoming like money
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take the scene of a group of South Indian villagers perceiving and counting a heap of collective money as a starting point to look at qualitative, subjective and contextual variations through which money manifests itself as valued properties, circuits, performances, acts, repertoires, and capacities in social and personal life.
Contrarian lives: Christians and contemporary protest in Jharkhand
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the role of Christian social movement activists and their relationship with non-Christian adivasi activists in the context of the Koel Karo agitation in Jharkhand.
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Betting on Performed Futures: Predictive Procedures at Delhi Racecourse
TL;DR: In this article, a long-term fieldwork at Delhi Racecourse was conducted to examine speculations on future uncertainty in Indian gambling market, where the future is not considered an openended event subject to laws of chance, but rather an event that is fixed.
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From Analysing ‘Filières Vivrieres’ to Understanding Capital and Petty Production in Rural South India
TL;DR: This paper revisited four decades of research on South Indian agriculture and its paddy-rice markets to show how petty production and trade can coexist with capitalist accumulation, showing how, to what extent and why the relations of agricultural commodity marketing "fail to complete" the process of polar class differentiation and consolidate petty commodity production in the post-harvest sphere of circulation, as well as in production.