Abstract Focused on a historically evolved marketplace, Chauta Bazaar of Surat (Gujarat), this article looks at the question of trust and its contours. In the popular perception, this bazaar has a history of five centuries of continuous survival. This account of a marketplace reveals everyday practices, popular investments in terms of its historical embeddedness and the manner in which notions of trust circulate in this market. The study argues that the narratives of trust are spatial as well as transmitted through generations. The ethnography throws a number of issues pertaining to this marketplace, popularly considered as a women’s market. At a wider level, the article goes beyond exploring the historical trajectories of this marketplace and looks at the narratives in which history is mobilised as an active agency shaping the dynamics of trust in a marketplace.

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作为流通商品在苏拉特 Chauta 集市的信任和历史的民族志

摘要 本文着眼于历史演变的市场——苏拉特（古吉拉特邦）的 Chauta Bazaar，探讨了信任问题及其轮廓。在大众的认知中，这个集市有着五个世纪的持续生存历史。对市场的这种描述揭示了日常实践，就其历史嵌入性而言的流行投资以及信任概念在该市场中的传播方式。该研究认为，信任的叙述是空间性的，并且可以代代相传。民族志引发了许多与这个市场有关的问题，这个市场通常被认为是女性市场。在更广泛的层面上，