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Stages of capital : law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India / Ritu Birla.

By: Language: English Publication details: Durham ; New Delhi : Duke University Press ; Orient BlackSwan, 2009 [reprinted 2011].Description: xi, 346 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9788125041467
  • 9780822342687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780822342458 (cl : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.954035 22
LOC classification:
  • HC435 .B57 2009
Contents:
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.
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Book Book Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks 330.954035 BIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 3010029450
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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.

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