1. Introduction: Theme, Method, Terms, Structure PART 1: Top-Down 2. Experiments in Slums, 1999-2006 3. From ‘Informal Sector’ to ‘Financial Inclusion’, 2004-2014 4. ‘Financial Inclusion’ Initiatives, 2014-2017 PART 2: On the Ground 5. Domestic Workers and the Performance of Hierarchy 6. Domestic Workers and Technology 7. Conclusion: Slippages
Biography
Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University, UK. He has held visiting positions at Delhi University, India; Peking University, China; University of Texas Austin, USA; Federal University of Campinas, Brazil, among others. He is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton University, UK. He has authored various publications including Usurping Suicide: The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths (2017, co-author), Consumable Texts in Contemporary India: Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology (2015), Globalization and Literature (2009), and The Theory and Reality of Democracy: A Case Study in Iraq (2006).
