In Narrow Fairways, Patrick Inglis tracks the experiences of poor lower-caste golf caddies at exclusive golf clubs in Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, as they struggle against caste and class discrimination to lift up themselves and their families.

Patrick Inglis is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. He teaches and writes on matters of global development, labor, and inequality.

• Note to Readers


• Dramatis Personae


• Map of City and Clubs


• Introduction


• Part One: Labor and Land


• 1: The "Caddie Question"


• 2: Under Construction: The Making of Elite Ideology


• Part Two: Servility, Deference, and Place


• 3: The Labor of Aspiration


• 4: The Boys of Banandur


• 5: Caste Illa


• Part Three: Opportunity Costs


• 6: The Burden of Distinction


• 7: "It Will Become": Twists of Fate


• 8: Going Places


• Part Four: Getting By, Falling Behind


• 9: Escape from Challaghatta


• 10: The (Mis)Fortunes of Ordinary Men


• 11: On the Path of Development


• Conclusion


• Acknowledgments


• Notes


• Index