... of law vernacular capitalism wagering Foucault This article is dedicated to the memory of Sri Radhakrishna Birla, who asked “Satta: Jua Ya Vyapar?” (“Speculation: Gambling or Business?”) in his autobiography many years ago. Radhakrishna Birla, Bhuli Bathein Yad Karun (Amritsar, 1968...

.... Our approach reveals the governmentalities, public cultures, and market actions that are characteristic of the present pursuit of value for profit and survival. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Speculation Divination Finance Economic Governance Uncertainty Vernacular Capitalism...

... in Gujarat, 1200–1500 . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . Sheikh Samira . “ Jibhabhu’s Rights to Ghee: Land Control and Vernacular Capitalism in Gujarat, ca. 1803–1810 .” Modern Asian Studies 51 , no. 2 ( 2017 ): 350 – 74 . Sherman Taylor C. “ Migration...

... in vernacular languages, as writers and patrons. The patronage of Persian émigré storytellers, as well as the quantity of cultural capital made evi- dent by patronage situations, is a subject of Pasha M. Khan s essay. By looking at the lives of such storytellers in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century India...

.... “a celebration of the singular” recalling the “early This leaves open the issue of the relation- modern cabinets of curiosity.”13 ship of Sarkar’s modernity with other modernities. This ambivalence at the heart of case stud- Are all modernities on par? Is every vernacular of ies...

... the status of local and prestige languages, and istence of poetry and literary criticism depended. Riti emergent vernacular writers often faced an uphill battle literary protocols follow a very different logic from the for symbolic capital. In South Asia, an otherwise com- styles of modernity (or bhakti...

... positions, moving between the capital city of Bijapur and the conquest frontier in the Kar- natak. See Flores, A Persian Spin Doctor, 7 9. 29. Eaton, The Sufis of Bijapur, 62 70; Eaton, The Rise of Written Vernaculars, 117; Sher- wani, Bahmanis, 151 73; and Bredi, Shiism s Political Valence...

...Sumit Guha Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Transitions and Translations: Regional Power and Vernacular Identity in the Dakhan, 1500–1800 SUMIT GUHA The theoretical underpinnings of reductionist under- paradoxical fate of this effort through...

..., the weavers were dependent on an investor to supply these materials, creating a hierarchic dependency. The vernacular production of cloth, on the other hand, was democratic with lateral relations between the different stages of production. Malkha has simplified spinning by avoiding bale-pressing cotton lint...

... of the ways in where to put their money back into play (in Marx’s which British contract law was able to “fold in” sense) in the endless circulation implied by M-­C-­M. major aspects of Indian vernacular futures market In other words, the key to success in the endless practices and bring them...

..., made by South Asian writers in colonial India, about the singularity of one's own language ( swabhasha ) and the writers' anxieties to protect this language from vulgar speech ( gramyam ). Building on contemporary work on the vernacular, the essay seeks to draw renewed attention to the role of speech...

... Mobilization in Turkey: in Bangkok’s informal paid economy as “liminal” A Study in Vernacular Politics Africa and the subjects contributing to the gendering of this sec- Jenny B. White tor and charts their increased visibility as economic...

... with the Universe . 15. Hofmeyr, “The Complicating Sea” ; Burton et al., “Sea Tracks and Trails.” 16. Werbner, “Vernacular Cosmopolitanism.” 17. Tsing, Friction . 18. Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal . 19. Chaudhuri, “The Portuguese Maritime Empire.” 20...

...Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit Abstract Allison Busch's seminal work on the classical Hindi literature of Mughal India demonstrated how the composition of works of poetic theory ( ritigranth s) became a defining literary enterprise of vernacular court poets in the Mughal-Rajput milieu. Though firmly based...

..., 24:2 (2004) uting to this indifference would be worth weighing with language-labor functioned and to clarify who used which care. One is certainly the diminished capacity of scholars languages for which purposes.7 Persian and vernacular today to actually read these materials, one of the most...

... to the State’s survival.’ The task of bourgeoisie that challenged ruling British official na- weaving a fabric of community is dependent upon politi- tionalism; an increase in literacy and the spread of a cal structure and history perhaps as much as it is ethnic vernacular press; and an integration...

... grieved India - Sanskrit, Pali, and Tamil. It was perhaps no ac- in his heart that on the island of Lanka so many cident that Sinhala was one of the earliest vernaculars to books that dealt with the True Doctrine had develop its own written literature and establish its inde- been destroyed...

...Richard David Williams Abstract In early modern North India, knowledge systems developed simultaneously in multiple “classical” and “vernacular” languages. This article examines the processes of multilingual knowledge transmission through an analysis of a Brajbhasha (classical Hindi) music treatise...

... , 1 – 22 . New York : Columbia University Press , 2010 . Mitchell Lisa . Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2009 . Neyazi Taberez Ahmed . “ Cultural Imperialism or Vernacular Modernity? Hindi...

... the multivocality and the spatial expanse of the early Persianate world of ideas and histories. Subah Dayal s article examines a literary circuit of poets and chroniclers in the Deccan (south India) region. Her reading of literature in Persian and the courtly vernacular illustrates the links among Safavid Iran...