The book traces the social and political origins of economic policy in India during its high growth phase after 1991.

For millions of poor people in the developing world, economic growth offers prospects for improved well-being. But what are the political and social conditions

It explores the formation of India's rural middle class, which rests on a complex, and often contradictory, set of processes that began unfolding with growing i

It?s no secret that certain social groups have predominated India?s business and trading history, with business traditionally being the preserve of particular `

A richly textured ethnography about knitwear manufacturers in South India that explains how peasant-workers have refined notions of place, gender, and class to