They trusted Sudhir, in ways that really no academic has ever -- or really anybody, any outsider -- has ever earned the trust of these gangs, to the point where they actually opened up what was most interesting for me -- their books, the financial records they kept.
Confiaron en Sudhir de una manera  en que ningún académico o nadie ajeno a ellos ha ganado  el respeto de estas bandas, al punto en que abrieron  lo que más me interesaba: sus libros, sus registros contables.