Company of Kinsmen - Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940

Sommario

• List of Figures
  Preface
  
  Introduction: Indian Society and the Economic History of India
  
  1. Context: Economic history and 'culture'
  2. States: A political theory of the community
  3. Merchants: Guild as corporation
  4. Artisans: Guild for training
  5. Workers: Collective bargaining
  6. Peasants: Property and market
  
  Epilogue
  
  Bibliography
  Index

Info autore

Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History in the London School of Economics. He works on economic history, business history, history of development policy and the classical music of India.He is the author of The Economic History of India (3/e 2011)

Riassunto

This book chronicles how the concept of organizing people to serve economic ends emerged in early modern and colonial India. It examines rules of cooperation, why people decided to join forces, how disputes were settled, and how cooperative communities became increasingly unstable in more modern times. It focuses on five dimensions: actor, agent, time, purpose, and region.

Testo aggiuntivo

'[A] real tour de force .. a creditable attempt to present a connected and conceptualized narrative of the great transition in the Indian economy from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.'
Claude Markovits (Economic History Review)

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tirthankar Roy, Tirthankar (Professor Roy, Roy Tirthankar
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.04.2018
• EAN: 9780199486809
• ISBN: 978-0-19-948680-9
• Pagine: 268
• Serie: Oxford India Paperbacks
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Modern / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Asia / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Asian History, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General