Untouchable Wealth: The Moral Exchange of New Wealth among Women in an Urban Nepali Untouchable Caste Community Presentation By: Sepideh Bajracharya IMTFI.

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Untouchable Wealth: The Moral Exchange of New Wealth among Women in an Urban Nepali Untouchable Caste Community Presentation By: Sepideh Bajracharya IMTFI Conference for Funded Research December 6-7, 2011

Dhukuti “Treasury,” “Cash-Box” An urban Nepali informal rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) A group of people who agree to contribute a monthly amount, the sum of which is given to each person in term

Three Types of Dhukuti Lottery system (“lucky-draw”): a person’s name is randomly picked every month Rotation system (“number system”): the next person on the list receives the collected sum Bidding system (“chorera khane” “releasing and eating”): the person who bids, or “releases” the largest sum receives the monthly collection.

Emukhel (Pode Twa) Dyahla caste (untouchable-sweeper caste of Newar ethnicity) Before 1980s houses made of straw and mud Public defecating ground No regular source of income

Changes since late 1980s State and development-based interventions Women and men hired as salaried and pensioned workers by the city municipality Implementation of credit/savings, literacy, income generating projects that were being independently run by women in the community Dhukuti allowed them to build and furnish their houses; send their children to boarding school; access consumer goods and services

“New Wealth” and “New Economy” in the context of Urban Nepal Since the late 1980s “Economy of Need”: The prevalence of an aid and development-based economy “Economy of Pleasure”: Access to and desire for consumer products and services

Project Questions How is dhukuti an indication of “new wealth”? What kind of economic and social capital does it represent? How does it mark a late neoliberal moral economy of need and pleasure?

Emerging Themes The social capital—social context, values, relations—that shape dhukuti economics An indication of how people interact with the formal and informal financial landscape The pleasure element: risk, uncertainty, thrill, and fright

Social Capital Existing Social Capital: Dhukuti in Emukhel Four dhukutis based on rotation and number system ,000 rupees ($ ); participants Do not meet to “play” dhukuti Payment in passing, during credit/savings meetings within two weeks of receiving salary on the first of the month Based on “trust” “Easy” and “Dependable”

Aspiring Social Capital “Restaurant” dhukuti: Tass Ghar (House of Cards) Dressed in fine clothes; eating restaurant foods ,000 ($ ) rupees; participants Did not know more than two or three people in the collective; connection through organizer “high profile,” “big”businessmen” “fun,” “like fashion,” “frightening”

Preliminary Analysis The more “love”—the more conscious of the labor that goes into the money invested in dhukuti—the less incentive to play high-risk “bidding” and the less social value/capital Risk—losing large sums of money and playing with people unrelated by kin, caste, or association—entailed a higher “class” dhukuti Dhukutis produced and thrived on risk and uncertainty

Engaging the Formal and Informal Financial Landscape Engage both informal and formal financial sector People most comfortable when their money is circulating, and being invested in multiple and various investment schemes and venues Certainty associated with lack of trust (not trusting any one scheme) and risk (investing in multiple arenas)

The Pleasure Element Same aura and allure as gambling Vocabulary: “playing,” “eating,” “fashion,” “frightening,” “easy,” “trust” Borderline Illicit: intersects indirectly with the law The subject of dramatic murder and legal cases that appear in popular newspapers People are not forthright about “playing” Exciting: involves moving through social gatherings; eating; thrill of anticipating, receiving, using money

Further Research Relation to “social capital” Intersection of formal and informal landscape Pleasure element Historical dimension Comparative perspective