Birla Stages of Capital

Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9247-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 359 Seiten

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An argument that contemporary Indias market society, and its concepts of the market and the public, emerged from commercial laws implemented by the British between 1870 and 1930.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birla, Ritu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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