Ritu Birla

Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

History of the development of capitalism in colonial India from 1870-1940 that examines how the stock exchange, family run corporations, and charitable organizations shaped the economic role of India in the British Empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342687
• ISBN-10: 0822342685
• Artikelnr.: 25945208

Autorenporträt

Ritu Birla is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1. A Non-Negotiable Sovereignty?
1. The Proper Swindle: Commercial and Financial Legislation of the 1880s 33
2. Capitalism's Idolatry: The Law of Charitable Trusts, Mortmain, and the
Firm as Family, c. 1870-1920 67
3. For General Public Utility: Sovereignty, Philanthropy, and Market
Governance, 1890-1920 103
Part 2. Negotiating Subjects
4. Hedging Bets: Speculation, Gambling, and Market Ethics, 1890-1930 143
5. Economic Agents, Cultural Subjects: Gender, the Joint Family, and the
Making of Capitalist Subjects, 1900-1940 199
Conclusion: Colonial Modernity and the Social Worlds of Capital 232
Notes 239
References 307
Index 329