driving the creation of the massive debt bubble in Andhra Pradesh which precipitated the crisis
of Indian microfinance. This article provides an analytical narrative of the rise and fall of Indian
microfinance, showing how the crisis was not a product of wanton political machinations, but
was spawned by forces within the microfinance industry itself. These, in turn, footed on longer
historical lineages of credit as a tool of social policy in India, compounded by the neoliberal …