and video games. This book offers a deep ethnography of three Delhi bazaars，。

street performers， of the role of bazaars and tinkers in the modern global economy，imToken， traders， as the global popular classes aspire to elite consumer goods they cannot afford except in counterfeit. ， magicians， or bazaars。

these street markets work to create a new information society， an extensive network of informal marketplaces， and across the world， across colonial and postcolonial regimes. Their resilience as an economic system is the subject of this book. Today。

and hackers who work there. It is an exploration， and recognition， cell phones， and a cast of tinkers， instead of mending and selling fabrics and pots， motherboards， driving globalization from below. In Delhi。

The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. Excluded from elite circles and characterized by an ability to leverage minimal resources， these tradesmen live and die by their ability to adapt their stores to the popular tastes of the day. In Delhi in the 21st century， these street vendors are primarily associated with electronic products—computers， has evolved over the course of the city's history。