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Portions of chapter 1 were originally published as “‘You Can’t Buy a Vote’: Meanings of Money in a Mumbai Election,” American Ethnologist 41, no. 4 (2014): 617–34, https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12101; copyright 2014 by the American Anthropological Association.
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