The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels intriguing ascent, Vinay Gidwani analyzes its...

"Chronicles of a Global City turns Bengaluru inside out to examine its "world-city" transformation that stimulated rapid urbanization and unbounded growth. Grounded in long-term ethnographic research and activist experiences, this volume illuminates the multifaceted entanglements of finance...

This two-part essay seeks to explain why group-based and individual piecework arrangements have become the modal form of payment for a variety of agricultural tasks in central Gujarat, India. Part 1 of the essay reviews New Institutional Economics (NIE) and Marxist Political Economy (MPE)...