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 ex.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Markovits, Claude
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Temas:
1900-1999
Business and politics > India > History > 20th century.
Businesspeople > India > Social conditions > 20th century.
Affaires et politique > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Gens d'affaires > Inde > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Asian history > India.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 > India.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 > India.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Sales & Selling > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
History.
Business and politics
Businesspeople > Social conditions
Commerce
International economic relations
India > Commerce > 20th century.
India > Foreign economic relations.
India
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 study
  • Epilogue: returning the merchant to South Asian history?

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