Gold in India: Commodity, Culture, and Economic Circuits - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009521713 ISBN 13: 9781009521710

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

This book delves into the socio-economic significance of gold in India and studies its enormous cultural currency.

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About the Authors

Anindita Chakrabarti is Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Her research areas lies in sociology of law, sociology of religion, economic sociology with a focus on sociology of work, wealth accumulation, inheritance and entrepreneurship. She is the co-editor of Religion and Secularity: Reconfiguring Islam in Contemporary India (2020) and has authored Faith and Social Movements: Religious Reform in Contemporary India (2018). She was the Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in 2022.

Barbara Harriss-White is Senior Research Fellow, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Professor Emeritus of Development Studies, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. Her research interests have developed from the economics of agricultural markets to India's socially regulated capitalist economy and corporate capital; and from the malnutrition caused by markets to many other aspects of deprivation: notably poverty, gender bias and gender relations, health and disability, destitution and caste discrimination. She has a long-term interest in agrarian change in southern India and has also tracked the economy of a market town there since 1972. She has directed an ESRC-DFID research project entitled Resources, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Technology And Work In Production And Distribution Systems: Rice In India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009521713
• ISBN 13: 9781009521710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Chakrabarti Anindita, Harriss-White Barbara