Trust, entrepreneurship and development in Surat city, IndiaFootnote*

The Wenner‐Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the U.C. Santa Barbara Graduate Division provided generous funding for the fieldwork on which this article was based. An earlier version was presented at the panel ‘Ethnographies of Trust, Culture, and Economic Agency’ at the 1996 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco. Sue Gollbach, Greg Knittel, Mattison Mines, and Angela Stephens all provided valuable input on early drafts.

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