Markets in modern India : embedded, contested, pliable / Sebastian Schwecke and Ajay Gandhi -- Banking in the bazaar : the Nattukottai Chettiars / David Rudner -- Space in motion : an uneven narrative of urban private property in Bombay / Nikhil Rao -- Magic of business : occult forces in the...

To 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,...