Publications

MONOGRAPH

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2022. Debt, Trust, and Reputation. Extra-legal Finance in Northern India. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2011. New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party. London: Routledge.

EDITED VOLUMES

Gandhi, Ajay, Harriss-White, Haynes, Douglas E., and Sebastian Schwecke, eds. 2020. Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Contested Jurisdiction and Embedded Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hartmut Elsenhans, Rachid Ouaissa, Sebastian Schwecke und Mary-Ann Tétreault (eds.) (2015) The Transformation of Politicised Religion. From Zealots into Leaders? London: Ashgate.

ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2021. “Merchants, Moneylenders, Karkhanedars, and the Emergence of the Informal Sector.” In Routledge Handbook of Colonial South Asia, edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Maria Framke, 145-155.

Gandhi, Ajay, and Sebastian Schwecke. 2021. “Markets in Modern India: Embedded, Contested, Pliable.” In Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Contested Jurisdiction and Embedded Exchange, edited by Ajay Gandhi, Harriss-White, Haynes, Douglas E., and Sebastian Schwecke, 1-28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2020. “The Artifice of Trust: Reputational and Procedural Registers of Trust in North Indian Informal Finance.” In Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Contested Jurisdiction and Embedded Exchange, edited by Ajay Gandhi, Harriss-White, Haynes, Douglas E., and Sebastian Schwecke, 147–178. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2020. “Das Kulturelle Missverständnis als Quelle: Robert Heindls 'Meine Reise nach den Strafkolonien'.” In Quellenanalyse: Ein Epochenübergreifendes Handbuch für das Geschichtsstudium, edited by Maria Rhode and Ernst Wawra. 376–383. Berlin: UTB.

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2015. “The Trivialization of Hindu Nationalism and the Reconfiguration of the Indian Bourgeoisie.” In The Transformation of Politicised Religion: From Zealots into Leaders? edited by Hartmut Elsenhans, Rachid Ouaissa, Sebastian Schwecke, and Mary-Ann Tétreault, 33–56. London: Ashgate.

Schwecke, Sebastian, and Rachid Ouaissa. 2015. “New Cultural Ldentitarian Political Movements in North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.” In The Transformation of Politicised Religion: From Zealots into Leaders? edited by Hartmut Elsenhans, Rachid Ouaissa, Sebastian Schwecke, and Mary-Ann Tétreault, 1–14. London: Ashgate.

Sebastian Schwecke. 2008. “The Limitations of ‘Mere’ Performance. The BJP and the Failure of Its Yatras,” In Power Plays. Politics, Rituals, Performances in South Asia, edited by Lidia Guzy and Uwe Skoda, erlin: Weißensee, 57-78.

PEER-REVIEWED

Maitra, Saikat and Schwecke, Sebastian. 2021. “Shopping Elsewhere. Retail Revolutions and the Spectacle of Retail in Contemporary India”, International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, Perspectives, 17 (2), 2021.

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2018. “A Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions? The Production of a Monetary Outside in a North Indian Town.” Modern Asian Studies 52 (4): 1375–1419.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2018. “Urban Space, Reputation, and Entrepreneurial Transgression: Informal Finance in a North Indian City.” IIAS Newsletter April.

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2016. “Historikertag 2016: Indische Geschichte.” In H-Soz Kult.

Sebastian Schwecke. 2014. The BJP and Its Prospects. A Turning Point in Indian Politics? (Heinrich Böll Foundation).

Sebastian Schwecke. 2012. “Review of: Haynes, Douglas E.: Small Town Capitalism in Western India. Artisans, Merchants and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870– 1960. Cambridge 2012, in H-Soz-u-Kult, 1 February 2013.

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2012. “Review of: Chatterjee, Nandini: The Making of Indian Secularism: Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830-1960. Basingstoke 2011.” In H-Soz Kult.

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2012. “Rezension: Dietmar Rothermund, Gandhi Und Nehru: Zwei Gesichter Indiens.” Periplus - Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 22: 218–20.

Schwecke, Sebastian. 2011. “Elsenhans' Beitrag zur Weltgeschichte. Review of: Hartmut Elsenhans, Geschichte und Ökonomie der europäischen Welteroberung.” Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 12 (2): 273–81.

Sebastian Schwecke. 2009. The 2009 General Elections in India. The BJP and its Prospects. (Heinrich Böll Foundation) https://www.boell.de/en/democracy/asia-6571.html

Sebastian Schwecke and Rachid Ouaissa. 2007. “Folgen einer gescheiterten Entwicklungsstrategie. Zum Aufstieg und der politischen Ökonomie fundamentalistischer Bewegungen,” EINS Entwicklungspolitik, 19/20 (2007), 51-53.

Sebastian Schwecke. 2006. “An Introduction to the Indian Party System,” In Rising India – Europe’s Partner, editd by Klaus Voll and Doreen Beierlein. Berlin: Weißensee, 474- 482.

Sebastian Schwecke. 2003. “The Rationality of Politics in Uttar Pradesh. Towards a Re- evaluation of the Concept of Factionalism,” Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics.