03583nam 22008295 450 991097236720332120240327070512.09786612198526978128219852412821985219780230594869023059486710.1057/9780230594869(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(Perlego)3504999(EXLCZ)99100000000076697620151216d2008 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMerchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs Indian Business in the Colonial Era /by C. Markovits1st ed. 2008.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2008.1 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349302345 1349302341 9780230205987 0230205984 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.Economic historyAsiaHistoryHistory, ModernEconomic HistoryAsian HistoryModern HistoryHistory of South AsiaEconomic history.AsiaHistory.History, Modern.Economic History.Asian History.Modern History.History of South Asia.381.0954Markovits Claude509036MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972367203321Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs4328591UNINA