Contents;
Preface;
Introduction;
I INSTITUTIONS AND POWER
1. Border lands of Economics
Institutions, Politics and Culture in the Explanation of Economic Change;
2.Making Out on Limited Resources;
3. Why Poor People Stay Poor in Rural South India;
4. Rural Inequality Matters
Constraints on Growth Linkages from Agriculture;
5. Between Economism and Post-moderism
Reflections on Research on Agrarian Change in India;
6. Wedding the Radius os Trust
Ethnographic Exploration of Trust and Indian Business;
II STATE AND SOCIETY
7. For an Anthropology of the Modern India State;
8. Do Political Regimes Matter?
Poverty Reduction and Regime Differences across India;
9.Public Action and the Dialectics of Decentralisation
Against the Myth of Social Capital as the Missing Link in Development;
10. Politics is a Dirty River
But is there a New Politics?
Perspectives from a Global Cities OF India and Latin America;
Bibliography;
Index.