Ananth, Bindu
Antilia Syndrome
Anuradha, R. V.
anxiety
artisans
Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR)
Aungier, Gerald
Aurangzeb (Mughal emperor)
austerity
Axis Bank
Ayyangar, Gopala-Swami
Baber (Babur)
Babu, D. Shyam
Bagri, Indu
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
Bajaj, Rahul
Bakshi, Rajni
Balaji Wafers
Balussery Benefit Chit Fund
Banday, Shafat Ahmad
Bangar, Srikant
bania (merchant caste)
banking and financial industry
chit funds
credit deposit ratio (CDR)
ICICI Bank
IFMR Trust
Jammu and Kashmir Bank
microfinance
non-banking financial companies (NBFCs)
non-performing asset (NPA)
Punjab National Bank
Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
SARFAESI
Shriram Group
State Bank of India
strikes
and violence
See also moneylending
below-poverty-line (BPL)
Bengal
Bengalis
Calcutta
crime and violence in
history of
Muslim population
refugees from
Saradha Group financial scandal
Bentinck, William
Bhakra Nangal dam
Bhalla, Surjit S.
Bhansali, Chain Roop
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Bharti
Bharti Walmart
Bhat, Fayaz
Bhatt, Mahesh
Bhotmange, Bhaiyalal
Bhumihar
BIMARU (lost-cause states)
Biocon
Birla, Ghanshyam Das
Birla, Kumaramangalam
Birla family
Board of Industrial and Financial
Reconstruction (BIFR)
Bohra Muslim community
Bombay. See Mumbai
Bose, Khudiram
Bose, Subhash Chandra
Brahmins
Burhanuddin, Mohammed
business process outsourcing company (BPO)
Aegis
DesiCrew
Canara Bank
capitalism
Carr, Tagore and Company
cash transfer
Caste Disabilities Removal Act XXI (1850)
caste system
and agriculture
Dalits
discrimination
Hindu Brahmins
and manual scavenging
and Numdah (rug-making)
quota system
scheduled castes
and social change
CGnet Swara
Chelaby, Ahmad
Chemisynth group
Chiliya Muslims
Choudhary, Shubhranshu
Chouhan, Shivraj Singh
ChrysCapital
Citibank
Citicorp
Clinton, Bill
collective memory
Commonwealth Games
communism
Maoism
Marxism
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI[M])
compounded annual growth rate (CAGR)
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Confino, Alon
Congress Party
consumerism
corruption
and cash transfers
and Commonwealth Games
crony capitalism
illegal toll collections
license bribery
Ponzi schemes
and quota system
crafts. See artisans
CRB Group
crime. See also corruption; violence
dacoit (bandit)
Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI)
Dalits
entrepreneurs
and social mobility
See also caste system
Das, Lakshmi Bala
Delhi
crime in
Dastkar (crafts society)
health and hygiene in
gated colonies
and Gurgaon
history of
host to Commonwealth Games
Sengupta’s family in
Shri Ram College of Commerce
transportation to
democracy
DesiCrew
dhobi ghat (commercial washing area)
domestic service
Drabu, Haseeb
Drèze, Jean
Duggal, Arun
economy and economics
Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji
below-poverty-line (BPL)
Bhalla, Surjit S.
capitalism
Drèze, Jean
gap between spending and
consumption
GDP
liberalization
Mundle, Sudipto
and politics
rights economy
rural
Sen, Amartya
Tendulkar, Suresh
elections
of 2014
and Bharatiya Janata Party
and Muslim votes
and NOTA (None Of The Above) button
village
See also political parties and movements
English language
entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship aam (common)
Abdullah on
Dalit
defined
and enterprise-driven peace
and freedom
in Gujarat
in Hiware Bazar
impediments to
in Jammu and Kashmir
and social reform
technology
See also individual industries
Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India, The (Ambedkar)
farming. See agriculture
Fasiam
First War of Indian Independence (1857)
Fishfa Group
food and beverage industry
Balaji Wafers
Harshna Naturals
Sapat Tea
See also agriculture
Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, The (Prahalad)
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gandhi, Rahul
Gandhi, Rajiv
Gandhi, Sonia
Gladwell, Malcolm
Gnanavelu, Ashwanth
Godfather, The (film)
Godrej, Adi
Godrej Industries
Google Digital Activism award
Government of India Act of 1935
Grey Worldwide
Gujarat
1969 riots
2002 riots
communal divisions
communal violence
elections and voting patterns
ghettos
Modi as former chief minister of
support for Modi within
Guliwala, Mushtaq
Gupta, Dipankar
Gurgaon
Guru, Afzal
Harshna Naturals
Hashmi, Shabham
Hawa, Habib
Hazare, Anna
health care
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
employment benefits
in Hiware Bazar
insurance
menstrual hygiene
railway medical card
and rights economy
sanitation
Hermès
Hinduism and Hindus
Ambedkar and
Brahmins
Brahmo Samaj
in Gujarat
and Mughal Empire
Pandits
and sati (widow s
elf-immolation ritual)
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)
See also caste system
Hiware Bazar
conservation program and social change
history of
travel to
Hizbul Mujahideen
HUL (Hindustan Unilever)
ICICI Bank
IFMR Trust
India
C5 segment
constitution
economic liberalization of
independence movement
independence of (1947)
Mughal Empire
social change
social welfare
space program
See also caste system; economy and economics; political parties and movements
India Builders
India Inc.
India on the Eve of the Crown Government (Ambedkar)
Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
Indian Bank
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA)
Indian Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Historical Perspective (Mehta)
Indicus Analytics
information technology (IT)
Infosys
Institute for New Economic Thinking
iQuasar
ISIS
Islam and Muslims
Ambedkar on
and elections
in Gujarat
in Hiware Bazar
income
Islamophobia
in Kashmir
and Mughal Empire
Ismaili, Armaan
IVR (interactive voice response) system
Jafri, Nadeem
Jainism
Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind
Jammu and Kashmir
agriculture
economy
and enterprise-driven peace
financial industry
government employee-to-population ratio
insurgency
Kashmir bus route attacks (2005)
and Pakistan
stone pelting riots (2010)
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Bank
Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI)
Jan, Arifa
Jayaashree Industries. See also Muruganantham, Arunachalam
Jayaraman, Lalgudi
Jhunjhunwala, Ashok
Jinnah, Muhammad Ali
Joshi, Nikhil
jugaad (can-do-ness)
JVG Finance
kahwa (Kashmiri tea)
Kalwal, Khalil Mohammad
Kamani, Ramjibhai
Kamani Group
Kapur, Devesh
Kashmir. See Jammu and Kashmir
Kashyap, Pradeep
Kerala
kerosene cash transfers
Khairlanji murders (2006)
Khusrau, Amir
Kling, Blair Bernard
Kodopi, Lingaram
Kollumagudi
Krishi Karman Samman (national agriculture prize)
Krishna Gana Sabha
Kulkarni, Sudheendra
L’Artigiano (global arts fair)
Lakhani, Kareem
Lalit Group
Lee-Warner, William
lending. See moneylending
Let’s Call Him Vasu: With the Maoists in Chhattisgarh (Choudhary)
Levy, Santiago
liberalization, economic
Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie (Lee-Warner)
linalool molecule
Line of Control (Kashmir)
List, Georg Friedrich
Loyal Textiles
Lutyens, Edwin
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Machiswala, Anees
Madan, Desh Bandhu
Madani, Mahmood
Madhya Pradesh
Magpie Hydel
Mahajan, Pramod
Maharashtra
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (political party)
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA)
Maids’ Company, The
Malhotra, Saloni
mango people (aam aadmi)
Manivannan, J. K.
Mansuri, Maulana Esa
manual scavenging
manufacturing industry
Maoism. See also communism
Marathas
Markovits, Claude
MART (rural research organization)
Marwaris
Marxism. See also communism
Mehta, Makrand
Mehta, Pratap Bhanu
Mehta, Zubin
menstrual hygiene
Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era (Markovits)
Mir, Khurram
Mir, Mudasir
Mir, Nazir
Model Village Programme
Modi, Narendra
and 2002 riots
Adani and
as former chief minister of Gujarat
as prime minister
Momin, Ali Hussain
moneylending
agricultural
Dalit entrepreneurs and
and IFMR Trust
and Jammu and Kashmir Bank
lender-of-last-resort status
and risk
and Shriram Group
Mor, Nachiket
Mumbai
Mundle, Sudipto
Munro, Thomas
Muruganantham, Arunachalam
Music of the Spinning Wheel (Kulkarni)
Muslim. See Islam and Muslims
mustard oil
Naipaul, V. S.
Natarajan, S. Anandha
Nation as a Local Metaphor, The (Confino)
National Congress Party (NCP)
National Crime Record Bureau
National Minorities Development Finance Corporation
Nationalist Conference
Nazki, Viqar ul-Mulk
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Neki (detergent)
Nekpur
New Delhi. See Delhi
Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA)
non-banking financial company (NBFC)
non-performing asset (NPA)
nuclear families
Numdah (rug-making technique)
Paanch Bhai soap
Padma Bhushan
Pakistan
independence
and Kashmir
Panipat (in Haryana)
Parasuram, R. 143
Parekh, Bhimji
Parekh, Deepak
Parsoli Motors
Partner in Empire (Kling)
Parveen, Soni
Patanaik, Biraj
Pawar, Popatrao
Pawar, Rameshrao
per capita hope
PHD Rural Development Foundation
Piramal, Ajay
political parties and movements
Aam Aadmi Party
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
communism
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI[M])
Congress Party
democracy
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
Maoism
Marxism
Samajwadi Party
Shiv Sena
Ponzi schemes
Poonch
poverty
Ambedkar on
below-poverty-line (BPL)
and cash transfer
and consumption
decline in
and moneylending
and rights economy
rural
and technology
and women
Powell, Colin
Prahalad, C. K.
Prasad, Chandra Bhan
Pritchett, Lant
private equity (PE) funds
Problem of the Rupee: Its Origins and Solutions, The (Ambedkar)
Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Bill (2013)
Project Azmat
Protection of Civil Rights Act (1976)
Public Service Guarantee Act
Pune
Punjab National Bank
Puri, Vivek
Puri Oil Mills
Qadri, Zamir
Qasmi, Suhaib
Qazi, Tahir
railway industry
Raj, the
Rajasthan
Ramaswami, Manickam
Rauf, Abdul
Ravi, D. V.
Rawat, Anil Singh
Ray, Satyajit
Reliance Fresh
Reliance Industries
religion. See Hinduism and Hindus; Islam and Muslims
Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
responsAbility Ventures I
Revankar, Umesh
rights economy
riots. See violence
Roodman, David
Roy, Arundhati
Roy, Rammohun
SA Rawther Spices
Sabarmati Riverfront (Ahmedabad)
Safai Karmachari Andolan
Sahara Group
Saharanpur
Saifco
Saifuddin, Khwaja
Salahuddin, Sayed
Salaskar, Narendra
Samajwadi Party
Sandel, Michael
sanitation
Sanskrit
Sapat Tea
Saradha Group
Sareshwala, Zafar
Saroj, Kalpana
Saroj, Seema
sarpanch (head man)
Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA)
sarvodaya (progress and upliftment for all)
sati (widow self-immolation ritual)
Sayed, Habib
scheduled caste (SC)
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) (1990)
scheduled tribe (ST)
Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and
Enforcement of Security
Interest Act (SARFAESI)
Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
SEWA Bharat
self-employment
Sen, Amartya
Sengar, Anil
Sepoy Mutiny. See First War of Indian Independence
Sharma, Devinder
Sharma, Shriyani
Shetty, Veena
Shiv Sena (political party)
Shri Ram College of Commerce (University of Delhi)
Shridhar, Ramchandran
Shriram Group
austerity of
business practices
and Citicorp (Citibank NBFC)
and private equity fund investments
and Reserve Bank of India Act 1934
Shriram Capital
Shriram Chit
Shriram City Union Finance
Shriram Enterprise Trust
Shriram Investments
Shriram Ownership Trust
Shriram Transport Finance Company
Singh, Basha
Singh, Gauri
Singh, Maharaja Hari
Singh, Manmohan
Singh, Mulayam
Sivaramakrishnan, T. S.
soap and detergent
Neki
Paanch Bhai
social change and reform
social mobility
social rank. See also caste system
Sori, Soni
Soros, George
Srinagar
Srinivasan, Akhila
State Bank of India
stealth reforms
Subbarao, Duruvuri
subservience
Sundaram Finance (Sundaram BNP Paribas Home Finance)
Sundararajan, G. S.
Supreme Court Commissioners on Food
Surat
Swasthya Swara
Tagore, Dwarkanath
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