Following an initial country workshop in India in September 2021, this comparative project spanning South Africa, Brazil and India intends to reveal what drives wealth inequality in the Global South, and how it can be addressed with an approach using a political economy and multidisciplinary frame. The study is an attempt at understanding the various temporal regimes of capitalism, the differentiation of accumulation across regional and social groups as well as the relation between wealth and politics or the changing nature of state-business relationship. Spread across four cities of different regions of India, their teams are currently collecting primary data on aspects of mapping the social dynamics of wealth ownership. This presentation will draw from their ongoing work on the Wealth and the Wealthy in India, spread across four city regions of India, NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. It is a primary survey of wealthy Indians, perhaps the first of its kind.

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