Preface: from Narmada to Rajpura -- Introduction -- Genesis of the land broker state -- Rajpura -- Dispossession -- Differentiation by speculation -- Peasants in a knowledge economy -- On the margins of a world city -- Reprise: dispossession without development -- Politics after dispossession --...

Front Cover -- From Land to Mouth: The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 The Agricultural "Economy -- CHAPTER 2 Economics and the Self-Interested Individual -- CHAPTER 3 Community and the...

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...