%0 Journal Article %T Recasting Language of Work: Beedi Industry in Post %A Megha Sharma %J History and Sociology of South Asia %@ 2249-5312 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/2230807517726406 %X Abstract The complexities of studying informal sector labour can be dealt with bringing a wide range of identities and ideas used by the workers, which encompass beyond the socio-economic and political identities.2 2 £¿ This article is based on my MPhil dissertation, ¡®Conditions of Informality: Beedi Industry in Colonial and Post 1947 Central India¡¯, submitted to the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2015. %K Heterogeneous production %K domesticity %K gendered work %K informal/invisible labour %K neighbourhood ties %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2230807517726406