Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables x
4. Maps and Figures xii
5. Illustrations xiii
6. Note on Transliteration xiv
7. Preface A Tale of Banians, “Toil,” and Miracles xv
8. Acknowledgments xix
9. CHAPTER 1 A Worker Path to Capital? 1
10. PART I Social Labor and the Industrial Present
11. CHAPTER 2 Social Labor, or How a Town Works, 1996–1998 55
12. CHAPTER 3 Accumulation Strategies and Gounder Dominance, 1996–1998 109
13. PAR T II The Agrarian Past in an Unstable Present
14. CHAPTER 4 Agrarian and Colonial Questions in Coimbatore’s Capitalism, 1890–1970 143
15. CHAPTER 5 Can the Subaltern Accumulate Capital? Toil in Transition, 1950–1984 182
16. CHAPTER 6 Gender Fetishisms and Shifting Hegemonies, 1974–1996 240
17. CHAPTER 7 Conclusion: Globalizing the Mofussils 274
18. EPILOGUE Gounders in the Third Italy 283
19. APPENDIX 1 Official Data on Industry in Tiruppur, 1996–1998 285
20. APPENDIX 2 Indices of Transition 290
21. Notes 295
22. Glossary 340
23. References 348
24. Index 371