Chapter 1 Introduction: The Economic Dynamism of Middle India

Chapter 2 Local-Global Integration, Diversification and Informality: Long-Term Change in Arni During the Late Twentieth Century

Chapter 4 ‘Local Capitalism’ and the Development of the Rice Economy, 1973–2010

Chapter 5 A Future Not So Golden: Liberalization, Mechanization and Conflict in Arni’s Gold Ornaments Cluster

Chapter 6 The Impact of Caste on Production Relations in Arni: A Gramscian Analysis

Chapter 7 Technological Change and Innovation in Middle India: The Case of Arni’s Silk Cluster

Chapter 8 The Making and Unmaking of Handloom Silk Weaving in the Arni Region

Chapter 9 Institutional Change in Informal Credit: Through the Urban–Rural Lens

Chapter 10 Feeling Rich on an Empty Stomach: Agrarian Crisis and Rural Consumption Choices

Chapter 11 Epilogue—The Future for Small Towns: The Case of Arni—or Ambur or Ranipet or Tiruppur or …?

Chapter 12 The Arni Studies Bibliography, 1976–2014