02811nam 2200673Ia 450 991081998680332120200520144314.00-8166-5657-61-4356-3330-X(CKB)1000000000484863(EBL)334224(OCoLC)476140741(SSID)ssj0000117594(PQKBManifestationID)11145167(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000117594(PQKBWorkID)10050290(PQKB)10869569(MiAaPQ)EBC334224(OCoLC)213436250(MdBmJHUP)muse38950(Au-PeEL)EBL334224(CaPaEBR)ebr10215797(CaONFJC)MIL523222(EXLCZ)99100000000048486320080207d2008 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrCapital, interrupted agrarian development and the politics of work in India /Vinay Gidwani1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (364 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4959-6 0-8166-4958-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-325) and index.Contents; Introduction: Sutures; ONE: Waste; TWO: Birth; THREE: Machine; FOUR: Distinction; FIVE: Interruption; Afterword: Aporia; Acknowledgments; Notes; IndexThe central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels intriguing ascent, Vinay Gidwani analyzes its broad implications for the nature of labor and capital worldwide. With the Patels as his central case, Gidwani interrogates established concepts of value, development, and the relationship between capital and history. Capitalism, he argues, is not a frame of economic organization based on the smooth,AgricultureEconomic aspectsIndiaGujaratCapitalismPhilosophyCapitalismIndiaGujaratHistoryPatidarsEconomic conditionsPatidarsSocial conditionsAgricultureEconomic aspectsCapitalismPhilosophy.CapitalismHistory.PatidarsEconomic conditions.PatidarsSocial conditions.338.10954/75Gidwani Vinay K.1965-1101203MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819986803321Capital, interrupted4071220UNINA