Reconceiving the grain heap Margins and movements on the market floor

• Published in: Contributions to Indian Sociology Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 28 - 52
• Main Author: Krishnamurthy, Mekhala
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi, India SAGE Publications 01.02.2018
• Subjects: agriculture; commodity exchange; central India; markets; materiality

This article returns to what was once an ethnographic staple in the sociology of India: the post-harvest grain heap. Having long occupied centre stage in analyses of a moneyless, redistributive transactional order widely known as the jajmani system, it has also been the subject of influential critiq...