{"product_id":"rethinking-markets-in-modern-india-embedded-exchange-and-contested-jurisdiction-hardback-9781108486781","title":"Rethinking Markets in Modern India; Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction (Hardback) 9781108486781","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRethinking Markets in Modern India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEmbedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUsing historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAjay Gandhi (Edited by), Barbara Harriss-White (Edited by), Douglas E. Haynes (Edited by), Sebastian Schwecke (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108486781, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e16 x 23.5 x 3 cm, 0.71 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Markets are more than acts of buying and selling. Markets are also a cluster of relations and practices, some legal and some not. Gathering together a set of rich case-studies, Rethinking Markets offers unique insights into what these relations and practices were and how they shaped modern India.' Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTo people operating in India's economy, actually existing markets are remarkably different from how planners and academics conceive them. From the outside, they appear as demarcated arenas of exchange bound by state-imposed rules. As historical and social realities, however, markets are dynamic, adaptative, and ambiguous spaces. This book delves into this intricate context, exploring Indian markets through the competition and collaboration of those who frame and participate in markets. Anchored in vivid case studies – from colonial property and advertising milieus to today's bazaar and criminal economies – this volume underlines the friction and interdependence between commerce, society, and state. Contributors from history, anthropology, political economy, and development studies synthesize existing scholarly approaches, add new perspectives on Indian capitalism's evolution, and reveal the transactional specificities that underlie the real-world functioning of markets.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Markets in Modern India: Embedded, Contested, Pliable Sebastian Schwecke and Ajay Gandhi\u003cbr\u003e 2. Banking in the Bazaar: The Nattukottai Chettiars David Rudner\u003cbr\u003e 3. Space in Motion: An Uneven Narrative of Urban Private Property in Bombay Nikhil Rao\u003cbr\u003e 4. Magic of Business: Occult Forces in the Bazaar Economy Projit Bihari Mukharji\u003cbr\u003e 5. Vernacular Capitalism, Advertising, and the Bazaar in Early Twentieth-century Western India Douglas E. Haynes\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Artifice of Trust: Reputational and Procedural Registers of Trust in North Indian 'Informal' Finance Sebastian Schwecke\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mandi Acts and Market Lore: Regulatory Life in India's Agricultural Markets Mekhala Krishnamurthy\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Market and the Sovereign: Politics, Performance, and Impasses of Cross-LOC trade Aditi Saraf\u003cbr\u003e 9. Brandism vs. Bazaarism: Mediating Divinity in Banaras Andy Rotman\u003cbr\u003e 10. Fighting Specters and Fostering Relations: An Ethnography of Black Money in India Ajay Gandhi\u003cbr\u003e 11. Market Making in Punjab Lotteries: Regulation and Mutual Dependence Matthew Hull\u003cbr\u003e 12. Liquid Assets: Transactional Grammars of Alcohol in Jharkhand Roger Begrich\u003cbr\u003e 13. Building on Sand? Criminal Markets and Politics in Tamil Nadu Barbara Harriss-White and J. Jeyaranjan\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economic history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20history%20%5BKCZ%5D%22\"\u003eKCZ\u003c\/a\u003e], Political economy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political economy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20economy%20%5BKCP%5D%22\"\u003eKCP\u003c\/a\u003e], Development economics \u0026amp; emerging economies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Development economics \u0026amp; emerging economies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Development%20economics%20\u0026amp;%20emerging%20economies%20%5BKCM%5D%22\"\u003eKCM\u003c\/a\u003e], Economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economics%20%5BKC%5D%22\"\u003eKC\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005918990616,"sku":"9781108486781","price":87.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108486781i.jpg?v=1696706363","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rethinking-markets-in-modern-india-embedded-exchange-and-contested-jurisdiction-hardback-9781108486781","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}