03302nam 2200673 a 450 991081542450332120200520144314.01-282-19852-197866121985260-230-59486-710.1057/9780230594869(CKB)1000000000766976(EBL)455341(OCoLC)433010937(SSID)ssj0000201428(PQKBManifestationID)12030543(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201428(PQKBWorkID)10245512(PQKB)10434978(SSID)ssj0001659520(PQKBManifestationID)16439279(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001659520(PQKBWorkID)14986815(PQKB)11295380(DE-He213)978-0-230-59486-9(MiAaPQ)EBC455341(EXLCZ)99100000000076697620080618d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMerchants, traders, entrepreneurs Indian business in the colonial era /Claude Markovits1st ed. 2008.Basingstoke [England] ;New York Palgrave Macmillan20081 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-30234-1 0-230-20598-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I: Business and Politics; 1 Congress Policy Towards Business in the Pre-Independence Era; 2 Indian Business and the Congress Provincial Governments 1937-1939; 3 Businessmen and the Partition of India; Part II: Entrepreneurship and Society; 4 Muslim Businessmen in South Asia, c. 1900-1950; 5 Bombay as a Business Centre in the Colonial Period: A Comparison with Calcutta; 6 The Tata Paradox; 7 Merchants, Entrepreneurs, and the Middle Classes in Twentieth-Century India; Part III: Merchant Networks8 Merchant Circulation in South Asia (Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries): The Rise of Pan-Indian Merchant Networks9 Indian Merchant Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey; 10 Epilogue: Returning the Merchant to South Asian History?; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZThis 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 extended the range of their operations to the entire subcontinent and the wider world.Business and politicsIndiaHistory20th centuryBusinesspeopleIndiaSocial conditions20th centuryIndiaCommerce20th centuryIndiaForeign economic relationsBusiness and politicsHistoryBusinesspeopleSocial conditions381.0954Markovits Claude509036MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815424503321Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs3981796UNINA