Debt, Trust, and Reputation - Extra-Legal Finance in Northern India

Combining history and ethnography, it traces the evolution of extra-legality in modern Indian finance and its socioeconomic ramifications.

List of contents

List of tables; List of figures; Glossary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part I. A Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions: 1. Introduction; 2. Contract; 3. Discretion; 4. Containment; Part II. Debt in Banaras: 5. Trust; 6. Obligation; 7. Disappearance; 8. Reputation; 9. Conclusion; List of references; Index.

About the author

Sebastian Schwecke writes on South Asian history, economy and society, combining a broad spectrum of disciplines. His recent works include the co-edited Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is founding director of the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, Delhi.

Summary

Studying the operation of credit/debt beyond the reach of state regulation, the book explores the dynamics of trust and reputation that make extra-legal markets work, their production as part of partially failing modernizing projects, and the social responses to them – as well as their impacts on everyday life in India.

Foreword

Combining history and ethnography, it traces the evolution of extra-legality in modern Indian finance and its socioeconomic ramifications.

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Schwecke, Sebastian (Indian Institute of Managemen Schwecke, Schwecke Sebastian, Schwecke Sebastian Schwecke
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781316517260
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51726-0
• No. of pages: 410
• Series: Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, India, Economic history, Northern India