Rethinking Markets in Modern India : Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction (Hardcover)

1. Markets in Modern India: Embedded, Contested, Pliable Sebastian Schwecke and Ajay Gandhi; 2. Banking in the Bazaar: The Nattukottai Chettiars David Rudner; 3. Space in Motion: An Uneven Narrative of Urban Private Property in Bombay Nikhil Rao; 4. Magic of Business: Occult Forces in the Bazaar Economy Projit Bihari Mukharji; 5. Vernacular Capitalism, Advertising, and the Bazaar in Early Twentieth-century Western India Douglas E. Haynes; 6. The Artifice of Trust: Reputational and Procedural Registers of Trust in North Indian 'Informal' Finance Sebastian Schwecke; 7. Mandi Acts and Market Lore: Regulatory Life in India's Agricultural Markets Mekhala Krishnamurthy; 8. The Market and the Sovereign: Politics, Performance, and Impasses of Cross-LOC trade Aditi Saraf; 9. Brandism vs. Bazaarism: Mediating Divinity in Banaras Andy Rotman; 10. Fighting Specters and Fostering Relations: An Ethnography of Black Money in India Ajay Gandhi; 11. Market Making in Punjab Lotteries: Regulation and Mutual Dependence Matthew Hull; 12. Liquid Assets: Transactional Grammars of Alcohol in Jharkhand Roger Begrich; 13. Building on Sand? Criminal Markets and Politics in Tamil Nadu Barbara Harriss-White and J. Jeyaranjan; Index.