Mumbai Taximen

Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies 2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology Brings to life the smells, sounds, vibrations, discomforts, and joys of taxi travel in India’s largest city In this first book-length study of Mumbai’s taxi industry and of the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi draws from the lives and voices of chillia taxi drivers who