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Author:   Veena Das ,  Ranendra Das
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.100kg
ISBN:  

9780198064466

ISBN 10:   0198064462
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   26 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ; 1. Introduction (Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das); Section I - Strategies and Networks; ; 2. The Genesis and Growth of a Business Community: A Case Study of Vaghri Street Traders in Ahmedabad (Emma Tarlo); ; 3. Slum Dwellers, Savings, Gifts and their External Credit Relations for Shelter (Peer Smets); ; 4. Lords of Labour: Working and Shirking in Bhilai (Jonathan Parry); ; 5. Demoralizing Developments: Ethics, Class and Student Power in Modern North India (Craig Jeffrey); ; 6. Caste and Corporatist Capitalism (Barbara Harriss-White); Section II - Transnational and Global Markets; ; 7. Indian Merchants Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey (Claude Matkovits); ; 8. 'Very Bombay': Contending with the Global in an Indian Advertising Agency (William Mazzarella); ; 9. In Search of 'Basmatisthan': Agro-Nationalism and Globalization (Denis Vidal); ; 10. The Social Production of Development Success (David Mosse); ; 11. Gender, Dowry, and the Migrations System of Indian Information Technology Professionals (Xiang Biao); ; 12. Legitimacy, Power and Healing: The Bhopal Case (Veena Das); Notes on Contributors; Index

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Ranendra K. Das is Retired Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics.

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