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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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The Life of the Text

David Parker
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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.