Publications of Ajay Gandhi

Gandhi, A., Harriss-White, B., Haynes, D. E., & Schwecke, S. (Eds.). (2020). Rethinking markets in Modern India: embedded exchange and contested jurisdiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108762533

Gandhi, A. (2021). Shock and shove: The embodied politics of force in India. South Asian History and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2021.1878782

Gandhi, A. (2017). The sanctioning state: Official permissiveness and prohibition in India. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2017(77), 8–21. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2017.770102

Gandhi, A. (2016). Delicious Delhi: nostalgia, consumption and the old city. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 23(3), 345–361. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2015.1034130

Gandhi, A. (2016). The Hermeneutics of the Bazaar: Sincerity's elusiveness in Delhi. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 39(1), 126–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2016.1149766

Gandhi, A. (2016). The language of the crowd: public congregation in Urban India. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 17(3), 308–315. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2016.1265570

Gandhi, A., & Hoek, L. (2016). Provisional relations, indeterminate conditions: Non-sociological sociality in South Asia. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 39(1), 64–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2016.1157567

Gandhi, A. (2013). Standing still and cutting in line: the culture of the queue in India. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal. Retrieved from http://samaj.revues.org/3519

Gandhi, A. (2013). A superlative form: How gold mediates personhood and property in Mumbai. Etnofoor, 25(1), 91–110. Retrieved from http://etnofoor.nl/?s=A+superlative+form+

Gandhi, A. (2012). Catch me if you can: Monkey capture in Delhi. Ethnography, 13(1), 43–56. Retrieved from http://eth.sagepub.com/content/13/1/43.abstract

Gandhi, A., & Hoek, L. (2012). Introduction to crowds and conviviality: ethnographies of the South Asian city. Ethnography, 13(1), 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138111432022

Gandhi, A., & Kanzaki Sooudi, O. (2011). The exceptional Asian: the fetish for culture in India and Japan. IIAS Newsletter, 56(Spring), 8–9. Retrieved from http://iias.asia/files/iias_nl56_0809.pdf

Gandhi, A. (2021, March 22). [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. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-3450-3

Gandhi, A., & Schwecke, S. (2021, February 26). 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. New Books Network NBN. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-34B7-F

Gandhi, A. Known unknowns’ in urban India. Talk_at_event presented at the Annual conference, Canadian Anthropology Society, University of Alberta, Canada. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-C3E4-3

Gandhi, A. Beyond civitas: non-human subjects in the city. Talk_at_event presented at the Utopia and Dystopia in the Global South, University of Witwatersrand conference, Johannesburg. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-4C6B-7

Gandhi, A. Looking without seeing: deliberate forms of obscurity in Delhi. Talk_at_event presented at the City Talk: Language and the Urban Sensorium, Stanford University conference, Palo Alto, USA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-4C6D-3

Gandhi, A. Opacity and legibility in urban India. Talk_at_event presented at the 'Media Morphologies' conference, Rotterdam. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-4C6F-0

Gandhi, A. Better living through chemistry: stimulants and labour power in Delhi. Talk_at_event presented at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-4C71-8

Gandhi, A. (2016). Fraught transactions: The ethics of monetary exchange in India. Retrieved from https://www.mmg.mpg.de/61618/wp-16-01

Gandhi, A. (2020). Black money in India: Fighting specters and fostering relations. In A. Gandhi, B. Harriss-White, D. E. Haynes, & S. Schwecke (Eds.), Rethinking markets in modern India: embedded exchange and contested jurisdiction (pp. 269–293). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108762533.010

Gandhi, A. Poornima: Designer of relations. In L. Bjorkman (Ed.), Bombay Brokers. Durham: Duke University Press. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-CBF3-3

Gandhi, A., & Schwecke, S. (2020). Markets in modern India: embedded, contested, pliable. In A. Gandhi, B. Harriss-White, D. E. Haynes, & S. Schwecke (Eds.), Rethinking markets in modern India: embedded exchange and contested jurisdiction (pp. 1–28). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108762533.001

Gandhi, A. (2017). A fractured globe: Anthropology and narration after 1989. In M. Burchardt & G. Kirn (Eds.), Beyond neoliberalism: Social analysis after 1989 (pp. 69–81). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45590-7_5

Gandhi, A. (2015). The postcolonial street: Patterns, modes and forms. In C. Bates & M. Mio (Eds.), Cities in South Asia (pp. 265–286). London: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Cities-in-South-Asia/Bates-Mio/p/book/9781138832763

Gandhi, A. (2013). Porous boundaries: Hindu-Muslim demarcation and crossings in Delhi. In I. Becci, M. Burchardt, & J. Casanova (Eds.), Topographies of faith: religion in urban spaces (pp. 189–205). Leiden: Brill. Retrieved from http://www.brill.com/topographies-faith

Gandhi, A. (2012). Informal moral economies and urban governance in India. In C. McFarlane & M. Waibel (Eds.), Urban Informalities (pp. 51–66). Farnham: Ashgate. Retrieved from http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409441328

Gandhi, A. (2011). Crowds, congestion, conviviality: the enduring life of the old city. In , I. Clarke-Decès (Ed.), A companion to the anthropology of India (pp. 202–222). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405198923.html