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Company of kinsmen: enterprise and community in South Asian history 1700-1940

Roy, Tirthankar (2010) Company of kinsmen: enterprise and community in South Asian history 1700-1940. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India. ISBN 9780198063780

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Abstract

This volume examines the history of enterprise and entrepreneurial communities from the beginning of the eighteenth to mid nineteenth century. Roy examines how enterprise and entrepreneurial communities adapted to globalization and colonial law. He analyses forms of merchant organization in pre-colonial and colonial India; impact of commercialism on artisans collectives; linkages between institutional change and peasant lineage; interplay between new work opportunities, managerial paradigms, and organized labour supply ; relationship between state, economic order, and business organizations.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://www.oup.com/
Additional Information: © 2010 Tirthankar Roy
Divisions: Economic History
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2010 11:25
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2023 14:26
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/27473

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