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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 “Book of Will” of Petrus Woskan (1680-1751): Some Insights into the Global Commercial Network of the Armenians in the Indian Ocean

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that "insider" material, preserved by the Armenians in the archives of the cathedral in New Julfa presents, by virtue of its logic, a one-sided, consensual picture.
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Interwar Housing Speculation and Rent Profiteering in Colonial Calcutta

TL;DR: Bhattacharyya as mentioned in this paper argues that the regulations surrounding the housing speculation during the 1920s were an early bureaucratic exercise in rationalizing the urban land market in order to make it efficient by regulating the ways in which land and housing accrued value economically.
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Advertising and the History of South Asia, 1880–1950

TL;DR: The authors examines the ways in which recent scholars working in a range of fields have begun to address advertising in their work and highlights how studies of advertising have served to highlight the significance of small-scale, vernacular forms of business enterprise on the subcontinent and to complicate any unilinear narrative about the ascendancy of corporate capitalism and mass consumption values during the 20th century.
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Rise of saffron power: reflections on Indian politics

Subir Rana
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a historical course of the transformation of jihād as a concept in South Asia, which is an essential read for scholars of religion and contiguous fields.