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?
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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