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Acknowledgments
The fieldwork research for this book was partly supported by an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) and a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award from the National Science Foundation. I am grateful to Urmila Patidar, Hetal Patel, and Sandip Patel for valuable assistance with my fieldwork. I also thank Tad Mutersbaugh, Dave Reynolds, Rebecca Roberts, R. Rajagopal, Paul Greenough, Michael Chibnik, and Jael Silliman for their comments on the first articulations of what would eventually become this book, and Jayajit Chakraborty for his constant support throughout the process of writing. Finally, thanks are due to Cambria Press, especially Paul Richardson, Toni Tan, and Kristin Roth, who made it possible for me to bring this study of rural India to a broader audience.