Following the hidden lives of the global "1%", this book examines the
networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in
Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which
elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the
modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment,
the experience of Pakistan's wealthiest and most powerful members
contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to
increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and
political structures.