Subject(s): Economic change, Decentralisation, Rural inequality -- Social classes in India. Politics and culture in India. -- Power (Social sciences) in India. -- Institutions and power : Institutions, politics and culture in explanation of economic change, local power and agrarian political economy, limited resources, poor people in rural south India, rural inequality matters, between economism and post-modernism reflections on research on agrarian change in India, ethnographic explorations of trust and Indian business -- State and society : Anthropology of modern Indian state, Political regimes matter, public action and dialectics of decentralization,social capital, new politics of civil society- perspectives from global cities of India and Latin America