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This book offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. It examines how water, through its modern capitalist production, is transformed into a water apparatus that binds people to power.

Scrupulously based in anthropology and history - and drawing on social theory and critical thought - this book revisits the disciplines, archives, and subjects of modernity.

The Dazzle of the Digital is written in the context of digital technology's inextricable link with progress and modernity in India, with the Covid pandemic in the backdrop.

An ethnography of the lives of the super-rich housewives of Delhi, this book delineates the ways in which these elite women construct their class and femininity.