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Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs

Indian Business in the Colonial Era

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Business and Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Businessmen and the Partition of India

      • Claude Markovits
      Pages 75-102
  3. Entrepreneurship and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. The Tata Paradox

      • Claude Markovits
      Pages 152-166
  4. Merchant Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
    2. Epilogue

      • Claude Markovits
      Pages 253-270
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 271-292

About this book

This 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.

Reviews

'Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs gives us a comprehensive understanding of the historical development of the mercantile as well as the entrepreneurial world of modern South Asian and greatly helps in providing a longer and wider perspective on the Indian political economy under an ongoing liberal economic policy.' - The International of Journal and Asian Studies, Vol. 7 2010

About the author

CLAUDE MARKOVITS is Directeur de Recherche (Senior Research Fellow) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. His publications include Indian Business and Nationalist Politics (1985), The Global World of Indian Merchants (2000), and The Un-Gandhian Gandhi. He edited A History of Modern India 1480-1950 (2002).
 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs

  • Book Subtitle: Indian Business in the Colonial Era

  • Authors: Claude Markovits

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594869

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-20598-7Published: 23 October 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30234-5Published: 01 January 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59486-9Published: 23 October 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 292

  • Topics: Economic History, Asian History, Modern History, History of South Asia

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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