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A useful corrective to narrative. . . . which do not tell the full story of the Indian economy. -- Commonwealth & Comparative Politics This grimly fascinating book showcases cutting-edge research on the close links between criminality and capitalism in contemporary South Asia. These searing accounts of the normalization of criminal accumulation need to be read and understood as much by citizens as by those claiming to represent them. --Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

This grimly fascinating book showcases cutting-edge research on the close links between criminality and capitalism in contemporary South Asia. These searing accounts of the normalization of criminal accumulation need to be read and understood as much by citizens as by those claiming to represent them. --Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

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Barbara Harriss-White is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS and Visiting Professor at JNU. She has written, edited or co-edited and published 40 books and major reports, published over 250 scholarly papers and chapters and over 80 working papers. Her book, Rural Commercial Capital, won the Edgar Graham prize. Through field research, she works on India’s political economy, in particular the agricultural and informal economy and aspects of deprivation and of waste. Lucia Michelutti is Professor of Anthropology at UCL. Her major research interest is the study of popular politics, religion, law and order, and violence across South Asia (North India) and Latin America (Venezuela). She is the author of The Vernacularisation of Democracy (2008) and co-authored of Mafia Raj (2018), and has published scholarly articles on caste/race, leadership, muscular politics and crime, and political experimentations. She is the convener of the MSc in Politics, Violence and Crime.

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