Publications of Ajay Gandhi

Gandhi, A.: Shock and shove: The embodied politics of force in India. South Asian History and Culture (2021)

Gandhi, A.: The sanctioning state: Official permissiveness and prohibition in India. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 2017 (77), pp. 8 - 21 (2017)

Gandhi, A.: Delicious Delhi: nostalgia, consumption and the old city. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 23 (3), pp. 345 - 361 (2016)

Gandhi, A.: The Hermeneutics of the Bazaar: Sincerity's elusiveness in Delhi. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 39 (1), pp. 126 - 148 (2016)

Gandhi, A.: The language of the crowd: public congregation in Urban India. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 17 (3), pp. 308 - 315 (2016)

Gandhi, A.; Hoek, L.: Provisional relations, indeterminate conditions: Non-sociological sociality in South Asia. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 39 (1), pp. 64 - 72 (2016)

Gandhi, A.: Standing still and cutting in line: the culture of the queue in India. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (2013)

Gandhi, A.: A superlative form: How gold mediates personhood and property in Mumbai. Etnofoor 25 (1), pp. 91 - 110 (2013)

Gandhi, A.: Catch me if you can: Monkey capture in Delhi. Ethnography 13 (1), pp. 43 - 56 (2012)

Gandhi, A.; Hoek, L.: Introduction to crowds and conviviality: ethnographies of the South Asian city. Ethnography 13 (1), pp. 3 - 11 (2012)

Gandhi, A.; Kanzaki Sooudi, O.: The exceptional Asian: the fetish for culture in India and Japan. IIAS Newsletter 56 (Spring), pp. 8 - 9 (2011)

Gandhi, A.: Known unknowns’ in urban India. Annual conference, Canadian Anthropology Society, University of Alberta, Canada (2012)

Gandhi, A.: Beyond civitas: non-human subjects in the city. Utopia and Dystopia in the Global South, University of Witwatersrand conference, Johannesburg (2011)

Gandhi, A.: Looking without seeing: deliberate forms of obscurity in Delhi. City Talk: Language and the Urban Sensorium, Stanford University conference, Palo Alto, USA (2011)

Gandhi, A.: Opacity and legibility in urban India. 'Media Morphologies' conference, Rotterdam (2011)

Gandhi, A.: Better living through chemistry: stimulants and labour power in Delhi. International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam (2011)

Gandhi, A.: Fraught transactions: The ethics of monetary exchange in India. MMG Working Paper (16-01) (2016), 28 pp.

Gandhi, A.: Black money in India: Fighting specters and fostering relations. In: Rethinking markets in modern India: embedded exchange and contested jurisdiction, pp. 269 - 293 (Eds. Gandhi, A.; Harriss-White, B.; Haynes, D. E.; Schwecke, S.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2020)

Gandhi, A.: Poornima: Designer of relations. In: Bombay Brokers (Ed. Bjorkman, L.). Duke University Press, Durham (accepted)

Gandhi, A.; Schwecke, S.: Markets in modern India: embedded, contested, pliable. In: Rethinking markets in modern India: embedded exchange and contested jurisdiction, pp. 1 - 28 (Eds. Gandhi, A.; Harriss-White, B.; Haynes, D. E.; Schwecke, S.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2020)

Gandhi, A.: A fractured globe: Anthropology and narration after 1989. In: Beyond neoliberalism: Social analysis after 1989, pp. 69 - 81 (Eds. Burchardt, M.; Kirn, G.). Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (2017)

Gandhi, A.: The postcolonial street: Patterns, modes and forms. In: Cities in South Asia, pp. 265 - 286 (Eds. Bates, C.; Mio, M.). Routledge, London (2015)

Gandhi, A.: Porous boundaries: Hindu-Muslim demarcation and crossings in Delhi. In: Topographies of faith: religion in urban spaces, pp. 189 - 205 (Eds. Becci, I.; Burchardt, M.; Casanova, J.). Brill, Leiden (2013)

Gandhi, A.: Informal moral economies and urban governance in India. In: Urban Informalities, pp. 51 - 66 (Eds. McFarlane, C.; Waibel, M.). Ashgate, Farnham (2012)

Gandhi, A.: Crowds, congestion, conviviality: the enduring life of the old city. In: A companion to the anthropology of India, pp. 202 - 222 (Ed. Clarke-Decès, I.). Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford (2011)

Gandhi, A.; Harriss-White, B.; Haynes, D. E.; Schwecke, S. (Eds.): Rethinking markets in Modern India: embedded exchange and contested jurisdiction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2020), xii, 372 pp.

Gandhi, A.: [Blog Post:] Is Indian capitalism really designed to enhance public welfare? The difference in the way the farmers protest and bank bailouts are treated is instructive. (2021)

New Books in South Asian Studies: A. Gandhi et al., "Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction" (Cambridge UP, 2020) An interview with A. Gandhi and S. Schwecke. (2021)