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Gold in India
Commodity, Culture, and Economic Circuits
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India is developing as a global gold powerhouse. Yet its intricate web of trade and transformations remains largely overlooked in scholarly research. This book delves into the economic significance and cultural currency of gold in India. Drawing on insights from economic sociology, political economy and history, it combines comprehensive fieldwork with archival research to explore the circuits of gold – looking at legal and illegal imports, refining, trade, craft and mechanised production, retail and re-export. Through multidisciplinary research, it relates the roles of gold in the building and sharing of familial and gendered wealth, in the diversity of rural economic life and in women's sexuality, subordination and agency to a range of issues in state policy. It shows how exploring the quiddity of gold offers a perfect plot to deepen our understanding of the socially regulated Indian economy.
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- Cover
- Advance Praise
- Gold in India
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Many Lives of Gold in India – Commodity, Communities and Economic Circuits
- 1 A Political Economy of Gold in India
- 2 A New Sheen to the Barbarous Relic? A Long View of Monetary Gold in India
- 3 Gold and Money Laundering in India
- 4 Goldsmithery and Goldsmiths: How India’s Informal Gold Jewellery Manufacturing Sector Works
- 5 Gold Trade and Gold Traders: The Subarnabaniks of Bengal
- 6 ‘Silk Reelers Know the Pawnbroker Well’: Gold and Capital in a South Indian Town
- 7 The Political and Moral Economies of Gold as Money in Rural Tamil Nadu
- 8 Malabar Gold: Relational, Reproductive Saving, Gendered Property and Wealth Accumulation among Kerala Muslims
- 9 Good as Gold: Love, Security and the Limits to Conjugality
- Epilogue: Accelerating Transformations in Indian Gold
- Glossary
- About the Contributors
- Index
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