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Shantanu Vidur Nevrekar

Grant Type

Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Institutional Affiliation

Stanford U.

Grant number

Gr. 10335

Approve Date

April 13, 2022

Project Title

Nevrekar, Shantanu (Stanford U.) "Banking on Community? Cooperative Banks, Caste, and Politics in Small-Town India"

While globally imagined as grassroots endeavors seeking economic justice, cooperative banks in India have been mobilized towards capitalist accumulation by networks of dominant caste-communities and political parties. While still embedded in these networ