Stages of capital :

Birla, Ritu, 1965-

Stages of capital : law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India / Ritu Birla. - Durham ; New Delhi : Duke University Press ; Orient BlackSwan, 2009 [reprinted 2011]. - xi, 346 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-328) and index.

The proper swindle : commercial and financial legislation of the 1880s -- Capitalism's idolatry : the law of charitable trusts, mortmain, and the firm as -- Family, c. 1870/1920 -- For general public utility : sovereignty, philanthropy, and market governance -- 1890/1920 -- Hedging bets : speculation, gambling, and market ethics, 1890/1930 -- Economic agents, cultural subjects : gender, the joint family, and the making of -- Capitalist subjects, 1900/1940 -- Conclusion : colonial modernity and the social worlds of capital.

9788125041467 9780822342687 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780822342458 (cl : alk. paper)

2008041778

HC435 / .B57 2009

330.954035