Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era

by C. Markovits

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349302345
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

CLAUDE MARKOVITS is Directeur de Recherche (Senior Research Fellow) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. His publications include Indian Business and Nationalist Politics (1985), The Global World of Indian Merchants (2000), and The Un-Gandhian Gandhi. He edited A History of Modern India 1480-1950 (2002).

Table of Contents

Preface PART I: Business and Politics Congress Policy Towards Business in the Pre-Independence Era Indian Business and the Congress Provincial Governments 1937–1939 Businessmen and the Partition of India PART II: Entrepreneurship and Society Muslim Businessmen in South Asia, c. 1900–1950 Bombay as a Business Centre in the Colonial Period: A Comparison with Calcutta The Tata Paradox Merchants, Entrepreneurs, and the Middle Classes in Twentieth-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 to South Asian History? Index

Editorial Reviews

'Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs gives us a comprehensive understanding of the historical development of the mercantile as well as the entrepreneurial world of modern South Asian and greatly helps in providing a longer and wider perspective on the Indian political economy under an ongoing liberal economic policy.' - The International of Journal and Asian Studies, Vol. 7 2010

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