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Recasting India

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by Hindol Sengupta


  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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