Being linked with the wider economy through a network of crucial useful services being provided by a number of meddling agencies, an agrarian mofussil setting has for long been associated with a vast chain of traditional channels of marketing of agricultural produce from farms to marketplaces. Contemporary literatures have however glossed over the facts of survival of class-divided production and mercantile agencies and the phenomenon of multiplicity of exchange systems pervading the continuum of informal to formal marketplaces. Such a dismissal is not warranted. A set of specific...