LEADER 03583nam 22008295 450 001 9910972367203321 005 20240327070512.0 010 $a9786612198526 010 $a9781282198524 010 $a1282198521 010 $a9780230594869 010 $a0230594867 024 7 $a10.1057/9780230594869 035 $a(CKB)1000000000766976 035 $a(EBL)455341 035 $a(OCoLC)433010937 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000201428 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12030543 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201428 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10245512 035 $a(PQKB)10434978 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001659520 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16439279 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001659520 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14986815 035 $a(PQKB)11295380 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-230-59486-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC455341 035 $a(Perlego)3504999 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000766976 100 $a20151216d2008 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMerchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs $eIndian Business in the Colonial Era /$fby C. Markovits 205 $a1st ed. 2008. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781349302345 311 08$a1349302341 311 08$a9780230205987 311 08$a0230205984 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Networks 327 $a8 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; Z 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aEconomic history 606 $aAsia$xHistory 606 $aHistory, Modern 606 $aEconomic History 606 $aAsian History 606 $aModern History 606 $aHistory of South Asia 615 0$aEconomic history. 615 0$aAsia$xHistory. 615 0$aHistory, Modern. 615 14$aEconomic History. 615 24$aAsian History. 615 24$aModern History. 615 24$aHistory of South Asia. 676 $a381.0954 700 $aMarkovits$b Claude$0509036 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972367203321 996 $aMerchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs$94328591 997 $aUNINA