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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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Market formation in Khandesh, c. 1820-1930:

TL;DR: Roy et al. as discussed by the authors examined the changing character of the marketing system in the region of Khandesh in northern Maharashtra during the first century of British rule, focusing primarily on the places that were essential to making ordinary goods available to rural folk.
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Afterword The Dreamwork of Capitalism

TL;DR: In this afterword, this article discussed how the essays in this section have provoked me to propose this unorthodox lens on capitalism, with inspiration from thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and Fredric Jameson, all of whom have seen in capitalism the makings of a new eschatology and a new magical imaginary.
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Invisibility of "other" dalits and silence in the law

Sumit Baudh
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
TL;DR: The invisibility of "other" Dalits and the silence about them is located in an emerging legal moment in which transgender persons are compared with 'untouchable' Dalits but there is no legal understanding of persons who are both transgender and Dalit as mentioned in this paper.
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Colonialism, Christianity and the Tribes of Chhotanagpur in East India, 1845–1890

TL;DR: This paper showed that Christian missions may have been as much a thorn in the side of British colonialism in India, as its ally notwithstanding, and that Christian missionaries are still seen as a threat to the British in India.