ABSTRACT
Disclosure is a social achievement. It is the result of a great deal of communicative effort in a studied process of concealment and revelation. Public disclosure requires a dual will to reveal and to receive revelation. India is the most celebrated contemporary triumph of global political modernity, and leading commentators ceaselessly applaud the verve with which ordinary Indian citizens have embraced democracy, political activism, the institutions of civil society, and other signs of modern political civilisation. Just as in Ancient Greece or in eighteenth-century Europe, in northern India the marketplace, the bazaar, is the ultimate ‘public’ environment; like the English term ‘market’, the word ‘bazaar’ refers both to a physical location and a conceptual space. The marketplace is also a place of many opportunities.
