Merchants, traders, entrepreneurs: indian business in the colonial era

This book deals with three main aspects of the history of Indian business: The relationship between business and politics, the position of merchants and businessmen in the economy and society of late colonial India, and how particular merchant networks extended the range of their operations to the entire subcontinent and the wider world. ÍNDICE: Preface - PART I: Business and Politics - Congress Policy Towards Business in the Pre-Independence Era - Indian Business and the Congress Provincial Governments 1937b 1939 - Businessmen and the Partition of India - PART II: Entrepreneurship and Society - Muslim Businessmen in South Asia, c. 1900b 1950 - Bombay as a Business Centre in the Colonial Period: A Comparison with Calcutta - The Tata Paradox - Merchants, Entrepreneurs, and the Middle Classes inTwentieth-Century India - PART III: Merchant Networks - Merchant Circulation in South Asia (Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries): The Rise of Pan-Indian Merchant Networks - Indian Merchant Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey - Epilogue: Returning the Merchant toSouth Asian History? - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-20598-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 24/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés