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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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Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership

TL;DR: In this paper, Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism and shows how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as upon legal narratives that equate civilized life with English concepts of property.
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Designer nations: Neo-liberal nation branding – Brand Estonia

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the emergence of nation branding as a commercial practice at the end of the Cold War by conceptualizing it as a means for nations to redefine and reposition themselves within the master narrative of globalization.
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Patronage as politics in South Asia

TL;DR: Piliavsky as discussed by the authors discusses the political economy of patronage, pre-eminence and the state in South Asia and discusses the paradox of patronage and the People's sovereignty.