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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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Revisiting Urban Property in India

TL;DR: In this article, a key question about urban property markets concerns the role of marginalized groups in real estate development and speculation in real-estate products in many cities in South Asian countries.
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Gambling in India: Past, present and future.

TL;DR: An overview of gambling in ancient and modern India is presented, and a public health approach aimed at reducing gambling-related harm and associated problems is suggested.
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Cities in South Asia

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of religious practices for the Indian middle class in the formation of the Indian city and discuss the post-colonisation and post-colonial transformation of South Asian cities.
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A Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions? The production of a monetary outside in a north Indian town

TL;DR: This paper argued that the Indian state in its correlated attempts to regulate and streamline the operation of monetary markets in line with capitalist development policies and to remove exploitative credit market practices instead produced a binary between a monetary outside and inside.