Webs of Trade: Dynamics of Business Communities in Western India

Denis Vidal, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, is currently working and teaching about the visual anthropology of south Asia. He is the author of Violence and Truth; a Rajasthani Kingdom Confronts Colonial Authority, Delhi; Oxford University Press, 1997 and he has co-edited two other volumes in India: in collaboration with Philippe Cadene: Webs of trade; Dynamics of Business Communities in Western India, Delhi: Manohar, 1997; in collaboration with E. Tarlo and V. Dupont: Delhi; Urban Space and Human Destinies, Delhi; Manohar, 2000. He is a research fellow at the Institute for Research in Development (IRD) and a member of the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies.